To Englishmen, the sardine is a pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), poor cousin of the English Herrings. Mediterranean peoples eat a smaller sardine (Sardina pilchardus sardina). Japanese, Chileans and ...

As Anna Hezel, author of Tin to Table, explains, “There are a handful of species allowed to be packaged as ‘sardines,’” such as sprat, herring, and other small fish that exist toward the ...