Socca

This primitive focaccia, rather like a pancake made with chick-pea flour, is a common dish in Nice and Monaco. When it appears in parts of Tuscany and on the Ligurian coast near Genoa, it is known as la farinata. My favorite place in Nice for socca is Chez René (see Pissaladière Niçoise); in Monaco, I always enjoy it in the covered market in Monte Carlo where it is made by two men known to everyone simply as les frères socca. This