Consider the Eel

Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel''s life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. "The eeler who explained the animal''s life cycle to me did so as he served up an eel he had just taken from a trap, killed, cleaned, and cooked in olive oil in an earthenware dish," writes Schweid. "I ate it with a chunk of fresh, crusty bread. ...