Fish Soup

As well as the ubiquitous assiette de fruits de mer, every restaurant along the French Mediterranean coast serves fish soup - very often from a tin or bottle which, ironically, in some cases is really rather better than the homemade version served in those erratic port-side restaurants. The real secret to making a good fish soup is being able to acquire what is known as poissons de roche. This is a colourful selection of small fish netted ruthlessly but necessarily and specifi