Category: Seafood

Recipes

Baccalà alla Napoletana

Salt cod, soaked back to life over 2-3 days, then simmered with tomatoes, olives, capers, pine nuts. A traditional Christmas Eve dish in Naples (Cenone della Vigilia). Briny, deep, almost sweet from slow cooking.

Recipes

Alici Marinate

Fresh anchovies cured in vinegar, then bathed in olive oil with garlic and parsley. A light, briny antipasto from Naples, Sicily, Puglia. Nothing like the salty packed kind. Eat with bread.

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Polpo alla Luciana

Octopus from Borgo Santa Lucia in Naples — slow-simmered in its own juices with tomatoes, olives, and capers. The trick is no liquid added; the octopus releases its own water. Tender, briny, deeply flavorful.