Review #4: Mackerel in Olive Oil
Something Different, Something Beautiful.
Believe me, dear reader, when I say I am perfectly aware, painfully aware, that a mackerel is not a sardine, and that a sardine is not a mackerel...
Review #3: Sardines With Tomato
Finding the Threads of Beauty Remaining Within the Corruption of Something Which was Once Sublime.
The metal snaps, a cloud of tomato rises to my nose with its deep earthy aroma. As the thick smell sits in my nostrils, a sharp whiff of sardine appears, like a dagger cutting through the tomato’s thick red cloak. The order of the day is fishy, but only decipherable through the highest notes, the peaky troughs, peaking from behind the smoother sine waves of tomato...
Sardine review #2: Grilled Sardines with Roasted Peppers
A Quiet Bonfire in a Tropical Cove.
The now familiar scent of saline fish brine wafts up to my nose when I crack open the second tin of this piscine adventure...
Sardine Review #1: Skinless and Boneless Sardines in Extra Virgin Olive Oil
A plunge into the Abyssal Abyss.
We set sail on this pelagic journey of ours with perhaps the most elegant tin in the box: the simple, white and gold gilded Skinless and Boneless Sardines in Extra Virgin Olive Oil...