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Is that correct? >> angel: 2014. >> jose: in 2014 you caught el campanu. >> angel: yes, yes. >> anthony: so that means what, the first salmon caught on the river? >> jose: el campanu. the first salmon of the season. campanu. today, for the entire day, around the rivers of asturias, hundreds of fishermen trying to get the permit in kind of an auction, in kind of a lottery where they are going to grant them certain parts of the river, and only for 30 minutes, 1 hour at a time depending how many fi...

>> pablo: there is another sentence -- "asturiano -- borracho, loco, y mal cristiano." asturian -- drunk, crazy, but christian. that is important. >> anthony: so, fair to say a tradition of independence? >> pablo: yes, before the spanish civil war we have the asturian revolution. that asturias during one month was independent because we have a communist anarchist revolution. the workers movement here was massive. >> anthony: in the mines? mostly coming out of mines or organized labor? >> pablo: ...

>> anthony: i would say that. >> jose: we eat this in asturias as an appetizer. the first course. >> anthony: wow. and its favada? >> jose: favada. its really difficult to define a region by one dish, but without a doubt, asturias is defined by this dish. favada. >> anthony: deep, deep soulful cooking. >> jose: and you have to meet guillermina now. probably shes inside. guillermina is a very special person. 101 years old. and she is not in the kitchen anymore, but not too long ago she was. in th...

With wales, italia, france, and scotland, and ireland we are celtic nations. ♪ here there is a kind of song that is called "tonada". and tonada is just voice and bagpipe. and its like the music from the people who work with the cows. >> anthony: right, folk songs. >> pablo: yes. folk songs. i think that music is allowed identity. i spend a lot of time with my grandparents. and they listen to a lot of celtic music. i had luck to live that kind of music and discover my identity. and i think that...

>> anthony: i can do that. >> jose: probably not. i cannot believe this is the first time. look at, look at -- with the hand, a little bit of the spin. three points!

>> jose: cabrales, i love it. i do really love it. >> anthony: cabrales, this is really lovely. this is fantastic. it all depends on how far into the funk zone you go. >> jose: look at, look at, look at. look at these, its almost like green bluish, its almost like the sky and the grass are touching each other right on the cheese. i mean -- you know one thing, its full of penicillin man. nobody gets ever sick if you really eat these cheeses. >> anthony: i feel my syphilis clearing up. >> jose: ma...

>> jose: its a hot day today. >> anthony yeah. >> jose: i came overdressed. >> anthony: jesus. >> jose: okay, are you hungry now? >> anthony: oh, god, are we there? >> jose: thats the town. youre going to see what the people of the mountain used to eat. >> anthony: well, to quote the great american poet robert frost, beans, beans, the musical fruit. the more you eat, the more you toot. the more you toot, the better you feel, so eat some beans with every meal.

You dont have to do it. >> anthony: ill do it, ill do it. >> jose: good. boom. >> anthony: yeah. >> jose: thats arrojo. >> anthony: ive tasted this in one form or another all over the world. >> jose: thats the local moonshine. >> anthony: thats good. >> jose: tony, i have a surprise for you. >> anthony: you finally got us salmon. >> jose: what the [ bleep ], dont move. [ jose speaking spanish ] we searched for it and we found it. >> anthony: the magical salmon. for a thousand euros a bite.

>> jose: no! this one was given to me. i got somebody that got a salmon. hes super generous, you know, "you want salmon? here." friends feed friends. theres no way that you come to asturias and you go without the bite of the salmon. this is going to surprise you because usually everybody always said, "the fish, we need to grill it whole." he breaks the fish in pieces, he cuts all the pieces through. why? >> anthony: grills them separately? >> jose: separately. and over the flesh, because the ski...

>> jose: you see here in asturias that nothing is plentiful. and the people of asturias, even in the hard times they know what to do with nothing. and i think asturias has been the land that nothing has been able to do a lot. and that shows you the character of the people of asturias. >> anthony: so ill tell you, a five-hour hike up the mountain, its tough.