Orata all’Acqua Pazza

“In a few restaurants offering southern Italian food, you may find this curious recipe. I have called it alia aqua pazza, which translates literally as cooked in ‘mad water’, though it is often found as all’acqua di mare, as it is usually cooked in seawater. As unpolluted seawater may be difficult to come by, here I have simply added salt to ordinary water to re-create the effect.”