Zuppa di Cozze

Nothing beats a morning clambering around on the rocks, finding mussels and bringing them home for lunch. Then sitting and cleaning them over a bucket with barnacles flying in all directions and those annoying little beards resisting your hardest efforts at tugging! I once spent a summer in the Outer Hebrides, where the mussels were so plentiful we could eat them every day. As with all seafood, please NEVER eat a mussel that needs forcing open.