Spaghetti in the Square

Spaghetti in Piazza

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio's Southern Italian Feast: More Than 100 Recipes Inspired by the Flavour of Southern Italy

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1998

  • About

You need an appointment with certain fishermen in Sicily to go fishing at night with a lampara - a huge light positioned on the bow of the boat in order to scrutinize the shallows. I was taken out in a small boat by two fishermen armed with harpoons. The sea should have been as smooth as oil but instead it was very rough, and all we managed to catch was an octopus and a scorpion fish. I had to improvise with them and this is the dish I cooked in the piazza for the fishermen. They enj