118. Baccalà Montebianco

Salted Codfish Mont Blanc Style

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

How strange is the nomenclature associated with cuisine! Why white mountain and not yellow mountain, as one would think from the color this dish takes when made? And how could the French, demonstrating their usual boldness when it comes to metaphors, have stretched their name for this dish into Brandade de morue?25 Brandade, they say derives from brandir, to move, strike, wave a sword, halberd, lance and similar we