Fish in Triestine Marinade

Pesse in Savòr

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    as a main course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
La Terra Fortunata

By Fred Plotkin

Published 2001

  • About

This is a classic preparation of the northern Adriatic. When you read about dishes such as sarde in saor and associate them with Venetian cooking, you probably do not realize that most historians believe that this preparation originally came from Trieste and Monfalcone in Venezia Giulia. We know this because it was a traditional preparation in this area when it was under the Roman Empire, more than four centuries before Venice would be born. The earliest mention of preserving fish th