Nando has his eyes on goose barnacles, a prized Christmas delicacy, even as he is precariously perched on a slippery rock off Spain's rough northwest coast. Diners pay handsomely to taste the iodine-tinged flesh of the grey-brown stalks that hold these crustaceans to the rocks, topped by white fingernail-shaped shells. But getting hold of them here in the cold Atlantic shallows of the Costa de la Vela is no treat. "The danger is not so much ...Friday, 6 December 2013
Motivation to Secure Christmas Treat Prompts Spanish Barnacle-Pickers to Risk Lives
Nando has his eyes on goose barnacles, a prized Christmas delicacy, even as he is precariously perched on a slippery rock off Spain's rough northwest coast. Diners pay handsomely to taste the iodine-tinged flesh of the grey-brown stalks that hold these crustaceans to the rocks, topped by white fingernail-shaped shells. But getting hold of them here in the cold Atlantic shallows of the Costa de la Vela is no treat. "The danger is not so much ...
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