The Sardine Starter Kit

Buy these first

1. Gateway: Season or King Oscar skinless & boneless in olive oil.
2. Step up: Bela lightly smoked in organic olive oil.
3. Flavour: Fishwife with preserved lemon.
4. Benchmark: Nuri in spiced olive oil.
5. Value case: Crown Prince natural skinless & boneless.
6. All-rounder: Matiz in olive oil.

Serve them on

Buttered toast, lemon, flaky salt. Then: white beans, soft eggs, or pasta with chilli and breadcrumbs.

Avoid

The cheapest water-packed whole tin as your first experience, and any tin with no stated origin.

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