The people at the other end of the plate — three boats, a handful of islands, and the growers whose names are on the cellar wall.
Three generations, one boat, and the calamari that goes into the stuffed dish. Written after a long afternoon in their yard — mostly about nets, and briefly about us.
Sardines, vine smoke, and the argument about whether the small fish or the big fish is the harder thing to catch well. Petros is firmly on one side of it.
We have half an acre of terraces and we still buy the fava in. This is why, and who from, and what happened when we tried to grow it ourselves in 2016.