Often it is coated in flour and fried: anchovies, small sole, baby hake, squid served together as pescaíto frito, which originated in Málaga but is now popular elsewhere, too.
The universities in Ho Chi Minh city, he says, produce more computer-science graduates each year than the entire stock of such geeks in (admittedly much smaller) Bulgaria.The sole remaining advantage to doing business in eastern Europe, Mr Keil reckons, is geographic proximity.
We always say, 'If you've got clumpy boots, you need clumpy clothes.' But if you're wearing a proper worsted suit, your boots have to reflect that, with a finer grade of leather, a finer cut and a smaller, thinner sole".
Most of the criminal solicitors' firms are small, sometimes sole practitioners.
Later in the meal, that great squash-blossom pesto came back, this time with a small European sole the size of my hand.
Aodhan Cullen, chief executive of StatCounter, said: "This should be a wake up call especially for small businesses, sole traders and professionals to make sure that their websites are mobile friendly.
This makes life harder for small businesses, sole proprietors and those without employer-provided coverage.
One stall sells small fried sole, another eel, its neighbour a ginger and date sweet and short glasses of ginger tisane.
Nothing announced so far on this front, but recall that SoftBank's diverse holdings include Sprint (which has a large number of small business customers); Lyft and a number of other ride-sharing startups (another business line that relies heavily on very small businesses: sole traders); SoFi; and many more.
One can but dream... Opimian says: I was talking to a small builder recently (sole trader, not small in stature) and his complaint was not about the planning system but that the banks are not lending money for building projects and as a result thousands of building workers are either unemployed or under-employed.
