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Published 1980
Labskaus is a seamen’s dish which belongs to the whole German seaboard and is generally thought to have originated there, although it is also known in Denmark and common in Norway. It is essentially a way of making preserved meat and salted fish, such as ships’ crews used to eat on their voyages, tasty. But it lives on in modern times, sustained both by the force of tradition and by its special and hearty flavour. When I was last in Hamburg, the Hamburger Abendblatt held a public ban
