uk news  The new face of fish suppers? Why carp may return to
Britain's tables  Migrants' tastes and environmental factors
help to revive interest in a fish neglected since medieval times
Sometimes as darkness falls, an odd slurping, sucking sound can
be heard coming from the banks of Jimmie and Penny Hepburn's 17
spring-fed ponds. Jimmie admits that it could not be called a
pleasant noise, but it is a satisfactory one, for it means the
couple's carp are fit and getting fatter.  The Hepburns will
this year haul Britain's first crop of organic farmed carp from
the ponds at their Devon home, and they have already had
interest from pubs, restaurants and a chain of popular wine bars
in London.  "There's great interest in the fish," said Jimmie.
"The truth is that we have forgotten how to eat fish like carp.
In medieval times they were very popular. Now they are usually
grown to huge proportions for anglers who take a photo of them
and throw them back. Hardly anyone thinks of them as food."  Two
factors might just