Octopus Daube

Until recently, unless you grew up in an Italian household or were fortunate enough to have traveled in Italy or Greece, eating octopus was not an option for an American. My own childhood exposure to octopus was limited to occasional forays with my mother to San Francisco’s Chinatown, where we gaped in horror at the fish stalls. Later I watched reruns of It Came from Beneath the Sea, a movie about a giant octopus that pulled down the Golden Gate bridge and in which my father, playing the pa