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Fresh mussels for dinner One of the boatmen, N.
Sathyanasan, invited us to his home for mussels. He turned the boat down a
side canal and then anchored it in the middle of a small, protected bay. A
friendly call brought out a canoe to carry us to shore. After a tour of
his town's brand-new temple, we returned to his house to find a large
basket of mussels freshly harvested from the canal by his sons and
nephews. A few minutes over a fire opened their shells, and then we
simmered the meat in a spicy coconut sauce. Here you can see me removing
the meat from still-hot shells while a circle of over 50 curious neighbors
watched.
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