Catalan Fish Stew

This is a suquety a Catalan fish dish which can be delicious or a disaster — it depends on where you eat it and who cooks it. Zarzuela is the word for a light opera in Castilian and this is, no doubt, a fish opera when cooked by the right tenor. Apart from the wonderful seafood, two of the four sauces that are the essentials in Catalan cooking are instrumental in the preparation of this dish: sofrito and picada. If you buy a live lobster, you will need to boil it first.