Italian Fish Stew

And while we are on the subject of simple but good things, here’s another – the Italian fish soup called Burrida. Now this is not the meal to cook on a whim one wet Saturday afternoon for that evening’s dinner party. Anyway, in my view it is a lunch dish. No, this should be a soup you feel inspired to make after an exhilarating stroll around a busy fish market on a warm summer’s day. You will need probably one or two kilos of strong-flavoured, firm-fleshed fish like eel, monkfish, oc