A hush descends over a crowd gathered in the yard outside the Higashi-Nakano Civic Activity Center. The silence is broken only by the sound of camera shutters. Keisuke Nakanishi punctures the rim on a ...

Surstromming, Swedish for sour herring, has a powerful stink thanks to food preservation. Surstromming, Swedish for sour herring, is legendary for its powerful stink. But it's all a result of the ...

TYRSIL, Norway, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A Swedish fermented herring expert who traveled to Norway to take care of a 24-year-old can of surstromming herring said the fish has completely dissolved. Ruben ...

As chef Malin Soderstrom opened the can, the trapped air escaped with a hiss and filled the balcony of her waterside restaurant with the pungent odour of Sweden's infamous delicacy, surstromming.

A fish warehouse in Sweden caught fire causing cans of one of the world’s stinkiest delicacies to fly through the air. The building in Enaanger, eastern Sweden, went up in flames with some 1,000 tins ...

'Surstromming' hails from northern Sweden, where it is most commonly eaten AFP and compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Web Editor Sign up for the Daily Briefing Get the latest news and updates straight ...