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Vopa

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By Patience Gray

Published 1986

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Just as in Apollona in Naxos, when the caique sailed away with the fish of size, the inhabitants were left with a plate of bony little fishes, so in Apulia I find a deep-seated conviction that the small fish, sardines, anchovies, vope, and the minute rockfish are the β€˜destiny’ of working people. The fish of size are something they ignore, their names, their nature and how to cook them. This is confirmed in village markets in summer, where a crowd of people, mostly men, are gazing at a great variety of fish but not acquiring them. Poverty, a tradition now reversed, has severely limited both their choice and their approval, although, strangely enough, they spend fortunes on meat as a symbol of prosperity.

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