Nigella Lawson likes anchovies. In Cook, Eat, Repeat she has an “anchovy elixir” recipe, and she uses it as a base in a lot of things when she starts with oil in a pan: chop up a couple of anchovies and throw them in until they sort of melt, before you add onions and such, and they add a nice base to the flavour. (See all the recipes with anchovies in them on her site.)
I tried it and it really works, and now it’s a regular part of my cooking. For a while I got Allessia anchovy fillets (imported from Italy) that come in a little jar. Recently I picked up another brand, Club des Millionnaires (from Spain), but it was a while before I noticed what was on the cardboard package around the tin.
![Photo of anchovy package](/images/20210923-fish-she-is-very-small.jpg)
Fish she is very small.
The story on the company’s web site says the slogan comes from something someone said to the president.
Fish she is very small.