‘Fish at Sea’

The labourer the night before has supped on a dish of piselli secchi , cooked in the pignata, and a dish of rape. When he rises at dawn in autumn to go fishing or shooting before starting work at 7, his wife hastily puts a pan on the fire, heats some olive oil, then throws in some dried chilli peppers, 2 or 3 tomatoes (pomodori appesi) and then the remaining peas followed by the rape.

He eats it with some home-baked bread and knocks back a glass of wine. (For a quarryman’s breakfast, see Pista e Coza).