What it is What is cod? Cod is the name of a food made from Atlantic cod or cod – Family Gadidae, Genus Gadus and species morhua – strongly dehydrated. Not to be confused with stockfish, instead dried by cold ventilation – principle of convection – and solar irradiation, cod is forcibly dried by salting…
Baccalà alla Vicentina: Nutritional Role, Diet and Recipe
What it is Baccalà alla vicentina is a typical Italian preparation, from the Veneto region and more precisely from the province of Vicenza. Protagonist of countless variations and customizations, rather difficult and laborious to cook, the cod Vicenza style is probably the most famous recipe based on dried cod in absolute. Caution! Baccalà alla vicentina…
Lobster – Lobsters
Generalities First of all it is good to remember that lobster is NOT lobster; they are two animals belonging to different Species, Genera and Families. Lobsters are Decapod Crustaceans of the family Nephropidae and of the Genus Homarus; from a morphological point of view, they are particularly similar to the Italian scampi or crayfish (type…
Herring
Features, habitat and nutritional properties The herring, or Clupea harengus, is a pelagic “blue” fish of the Clupeidae family. It lives in large shoals that populate only the coastal areas of the North Atlantic Ocean (Iceland, Greenland, North America, northern Europe [especially Holland and Norway] etc.); curiously, during the fishing of herring is not uncommon…
Lobster – Mediterranean Lobsters
Morphologically speaking, lobsters do not possess the large frontal hairs characteristic of lobsters (crustaceans belonging to the Hommarus species); despite this, and although they are different in terms of family and genus, lobsters and lobsters are frequently confused one with the other, probably because of their similar shrimp shape and the considerable size they can…
Eel – Generalities and Nutritional Information
Generalities The Italian eel is the same species (Anguilla anguilla called “European eel”) that colonizes the inland waters of the Old Continent, before migrating towards the Sargasso Sea crossing the Mediterranean Sea and then the Atlantic Ocean; it is a bony fish able to survive safely in both fresh and salt water. It has a…
Eel Cooking – How to Cook Eel
Talking about how to choose, prepare and cook eel could be written an entire book (to tell the truth, someone has already done it). With this article we will limit ourselves to transmitting some basic and fundamental concepts for the preparation of this fish, so little appreciated by the inexperienced but capable of “bewitching” those…