Sicilian Mattanza Dinner
Held at Incanto on May 31, 2004
They were like fishes, which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun makes an end of them.
Homer, The Odyssey, Book XXII, 800 B.C.
The Northern Bluefin
The Northern bluefin tuna (thunnus thynnus) holds an almost mythic position among the world's pelagic fish. Aristotle described the migratory and reproductive habits of tuna in his treatise History of Animals, written in 350 B.C. The Phoenicians and Carthaginians stamped their coins with an image of a bluefin tuna. In
the first 
century A.D., Pliny the Elder prescribed various parts of the tuna as homeopathic remedies for human ailments. In more recent history, Arabs, Spanish, and Italians have incorporated tuna not only into their diets, but also into their poetry, music and culture.
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