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elleng

(130,714 posts)
Sat May 20, 2017, 02:54 PM May 2017

An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast

*For those pitiable souls suffering from a lifelong aversion to seafood, I propose Italy’s Adriatic coast as the place to get over it. Many times over the past two decades, I’ve navigated the trek from Venice to Trieste, two of Europe’s most bewitching cities. It was along this arc that I came to appreciate how Italy’s core culinary principle — a reliance on the freshest of ingredients — extends to the sea. Anyone who thinks that anchovies (alici) taste fishy, or that calamari is palatable only if it’s fried, or that the only worthwhile fish on an Italian menu is sea bass (branzino), needs to feast on Adriatic cuisine for a proper disabusing.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/travel/europe-adriatic-seafood-feast-italian-coast.html?

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