Italian- Americana  After an afternoon spent in the Indiana farmland of Shipshewana eating fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy and shoofly pie, I wanted to show our Italian cousins another part of America.
So after a trip to a cheese factory and shopping for Amish quilts we got back on the road and stopped for dinner at the Islamorada Fish Company. The restaurant Nothing like that in Italy! The cousins loved it especially the coda di alligatore; alligator tail. They said it tasted like, you guessed it, . . . chicken. |
The Ugliest Fish in Italy  Although Italians don't eat alligator tails they do like to eat the tail (coda) of what many call the ugliest fish in Italy, the Rana Pescatrice or Coda di Rospo, also known as the anglerfish or monkfish.
This translates as Fishing Frog and Toad's Tail, respectively and because of the extreme unattractiveness of this fish many fishmongers skin them and sell just the tail ends. My Italian cousins tell me that the meat is very good. It is firm, white and mildly sweet and in fact tastes just like . . . alligator! |
