When choosing your fish, let the fishmonger know you intend to eat it raw.

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Mother Vera came out after him with a coat in her hands, cuffing him across the ear and forcing him into it, while the blacksmith and the fishmonger and the man who sold buttons propped Vladisa up in the snow and gave him water.

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If the prospect is too gruesome, have your fishmonger do the dirty work and fry up the crabs as soon as you get home.

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Home cooks, he said, should also ask their fishmonger to clean and scale the goods (sardines' small size makes doing so particularly tedious).

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His business as a fishmonger has also dropped because of the financial crisis as people eat less fresh fish to save money.

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But fishmonger Liz Laughton said she was unhappy about the possibility of bringing in private investors to jointly manage the market.

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