Recipes from Italy

Indeed there are so many Italian recipes for fish that it is difficult to make a selection which will seem reasonably compact and yet do some sort of justice to all the rival claims. In the field of fish soups alone it would be possible to cite dozens of good recipes. Caminiti, Pasquini and Quondamatteo, in their book Mangiari di Romagna, observe that if one takes the Marche alone one finds that there are seven towns – San Benedetto, Porto S. Giorgio, Porto Recanati, Numana, Ancona, Falconara and Senigallia – which claim, and claim with passion, the best brodetto of that particular stretch of coastline.