A Book of Mediterranean Food

up a clove of garlic and placed over a very low flame. In two other small saucepans have some milk and some olive oil, both keep ...

tepid, or the oil will disintegrate and ruin the whole preparation. Also the stirring and breaking of the cod must be done with ...

Provence. It is a ragoût made of onions, tomatoes, garlic, pounded walnuts, thyme, rosemary, fennel, parsley, bay leaves, red wi ...

across twice on each side, salted, and coated with olive oil or melted butter. Lay a bed of dried fennel stalks in the grilling ...

served. Dried fennel twigs from Provence, as also dried wild thyme on the stalk, and dried whole basil, can be bought from L. Ro ...

adding half-way through the cooking 2 or 3 tomatoes, chopped, a handful of cut parsley, and a small glass of wine, either red or ...

daurade (sea bream), baudroie (angler or frog fish), mulet (grey mullet), but is successful with almost any white fish, and one ...

or vinegar, for about 15 minutes. Leave this to cool, and strain before putting in the fish and bringing them very gently to the ...

into the top half of a double pan; stir into it the beaten yolks of 4 eggs, then a ladleful of the strained court bouillon in wh ...

Octopus and Cuttlefish * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Greek Feast ‘... We learnt what is meant by a “Feast of the Chu ...

across, and down, in the form of a rectangle missing one end. At them sat a company of 60 or 70. In the middle, at the top, pres ...

Albania, an important post for a man of 47. But he was not certain, he said, whether he wished to exchange the idyll of Athonite ...

with a yellow mayonnaise of beaten caviare. Their advent was pregnant with event; for, unaware of their resilience, I plunged my ...

each plate, were served with the tops knocked off. They had to be wheedled therefore, not, as in the West, from the snail’s own ...

across the tables. Then, headed by Evlogios and the bishop, the assembled company took each an empty shell between thumb and for ...

by Robert Byron OCTOPUS The octopus sounds alarming to those who have not travelled in the Mediterranean; it is in fact an excel ...

to be cooked in their own ink, which makes a rich black sauce, with a very strong flavour), and left in running water for some m ...

covered with red wine. Simmer very slowly for 4 or 5 hours. There are two London fishmongers, Richards, and Hitchcock’s, both in ...

the intestines, the hard beak-like protuberance, and the transparent spine bone. Season the fish with salt, pepper, lemon juice, ...

Very small inkfish, in France suppions, in Italy calamaretti, in Greece calamarakia, are a great delicacy. They are usually dipp ...