With people’s growing demand for more unusual foods, some producers have turned to continental Europe for inspiration.  In Somerset, Michael Brown runs a successful eel smokery, which from its humble beginnings has gone on to become a popular restaurant, shop and mail order business.  Taking advantage of the farmer’s need to diversify, the smokery, at Highbridge near Langport, occupies redundant farm buildings that today form part of a successful retail outlet and business park.  The smokery is a far cry from its early beginnings but the techniques used by Michael and his team remain much as they have been for hundreds of years…