La socca

La socca, a moist baked square of chick-pea gruel, is one of the traditional morning snacks of building workers in the area around Nice. In the old days, the socca vendors used to transport their wares from building site to building site in small two-wheeled carts, topped with a large zinc hood to keep the stacked trays of socca warm over the charcoal brazier inside the cart. It was the job of the youngest man on the building site to bring steaming portions of hot so