Posts Tagged 'tonnarotti'

It 'an event that follow one another cyclically over the years, and characterizes the pretty little Carloforte. Tuna fish of excellent taste, at the point of slaughter, which is the final moment of the proceedings are brought into a complex of networks, which were lowered into the sea in May and will remain there until the month of June. The fish within these rooms is grown and swell, until the Rais, the head of the trap, believes that the number Tuna in the room formed by the networks, is sufficient and that the weather is good, the fish, by making wise are forced to make its entrance into the death chamber. The four sides, which consists again of networks, four boats, inhabited by tonnarotti. These following orders given by rais raise their nets, resulting in the ascent to the surface of tuna that will take in a show to stir noisy and exciting and both coldly cruel. The most beautiful and large are going to be hit with a group, the hooks of tonnarotti. Before the audience, which year after year become more numerous, the sea is tinged with red, and tuna are reclaimed from the sea and hoisted high in auctions. A show that can appear crude, perhaps simply because time was not a spectacle, but a natural means for survival and food supply. Tuna in fact, the whole population does not really throw anything, as if to the very last moment, observe that beautiful sea creatures. For years now, agreeably to frame the tuna factory, the Girotonno, an event which involved a lot of tourists who have the opportunity not only to know and visit an island of rare beauty, but also to taste one of the best tuna world, cooked in ways more sfizziose, from world renowned chefs.

Claudia Zedda