Rural craft
May 20, 2020
3 minutes
Nick Fisher
“They’re a funny bunch,” said
Fred Cooke, owner of the best eel, pie and mash shop in Dalston, east London. “Meeting up with them out in the Fens at the dead of night with a pocket full of cash doesn’t half give me the willies sometimes.”
Fred was talking about eel trappers who plied their trade through the rivers and drains of East Anglia, where he bought the wriggling, slimy resource
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