A Book of Mediterranean Food

to the fingers of the fisherman. We
have abundance of the saepia, or
cuttle-fish, of which the people in
this country make a delicate
ragoût; as also of the polype de mer,
which is an ugly animal, with long
feelers, like tails, which they often
wind about the legs of the
fishermen. They are stewed with
onions, and eat something like
cow-heel. The market sometimes
affords the écrevisse de mer, which
is a lobster without claws, of a
sweetish taste; and there are a few
rock oysters, very small and very
rank. Sometimes the fishermen find
under water, pieces of a very hard