Stoccafisso Badalucchese

Each year the village of Badalucco in the Ligurian hills near Taggia, not far from San Remo, celebrates the Stockfish Festival. Most of the stoccafisso (dried cod) is produced in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, and every year they send 500 kg as a present to the Badalucchesi.

The word comes from the German Stock Fisch, ‘fish as hard as a stick’, and this is literally true of this preserved cod. It used to be for poor people who could not afford fresh fish. Only the invent