A friend from London, UK sent me the announcement
for a fish dinner upcoming July reminding me that a decade ago we had gone to a
National Federation of Fishmongers.
“Time to do it again?” he asked.
If I recall correctly, that competition was at
Billingsgate Market in London, and the first such competition I witnessed. Large and very fresh salmon were filleted with
the artfulness of a sculptor’s hands and the dexterity of a surgeon. All bones
were extracted and every step of the process was closely observed and evaluated
by professional monger-judges and after a number of rounds, a championed
declared.
Of course we had the freshest salmon I have had
after the competition was over.
… Well, that may have been a decade ago, but I am
quite organized in keeping my printed photos in accessible places, and my
negatives well annotated. I recall
having my Nikon F with me on that trip so looked in printed photos in the
shoebox that says “Nikon F”!
Et voilà, I had kept a less than perfect photo in
that box.
But it will do to prove to my friend that I had not
forgotten about that day.
June 10, 2018
© Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2018
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