Pesce in Acqua Pazza

Fish Cooked in Crazy Water

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
In Nonna's Kitchen

By Carol Field

Published 1997

  • About

Fish cooked in crazy water? Local lore has it that fishermen used to make it with seawater and a single rock collected from the depths of the harbor that was thickly encrusted with mollusks and algae. What makes it crazy? Carola Francesconi, the greatest authority on Neapolitan food, says the name is used for any dish in which seawater is the major ingredient. The local fishermen who named the dish may or may not have tossed into the pot a few fish from their catch to provide a bit of flavo