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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Fisterra

‘It’s eating what the sea provides’: Galicia’s Atlantic diet eclipses Mediterranean cousin

Sito Mendoza, left, with Ramón Álvarez in Fisterra, Galicia.
Former sailors Sito Mendoza, left, and Ramón Álvarez now work in the conger eel business from a wharfside shed in Fisterra, Galicia. Photograph: Sam Jones

Seagulls shriek, boats bob and the morning sun silvers the waters off the Coast of Death as two sailors take a break from winding up their conger eel lines to ponder the sudden interest in precisely what, and how, people here have eaten for centuries.

Like many in the small Galician fishing town of Fisterra – whose name is derived from the Latin for land’s end, because the lonely peninsula on which it sits is about as far west as you can go in mainland Spain – Sito Mendoza and Ramón Álvarez are a little puzzled by all the fuss over the Atlantic diet.

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