[Media] Fisherman of Aran still on the crest of a wave

Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:40 am

Found this interesting, and its online (Sunday Business Post)

The air inside Malachy Beatty’s whitewashed cottage on Inis Mór is permeated with pungent smells of salt, sea and fish, an aromatic symphony which reminds anyone who enters that the island’s age-old festive tradition is still alive.

While most people on the mainland will be looking forward to turkey and plum pudding for Christmas, it is somewhat different on the Aran Islands, where eating a piece of Beatty’s hand-salted wrasse on Christmas Eve is the ultimate ritual. So popular is the fish delicacy that every year he can barely meet demand, and has been known to turn away requests for large orders from England and America.

Rock fisherman Beatty specialises in preserving wrasse and other rockfish by hand, using ancient salting and drying methods once employed across the islands..


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http://www.sbpost.ie/newsfeatures/fishe ... 46346.html

Re: [Media] Fisherman of Aran still on the crest of a wave

Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:47 am

Very Interesting

Re: [Media] Fisherman of Aran still on the crest of a wave

Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:22 pm

its brilliant all the questions about eating wrasse on the site and heres proof that we v been eating them for years