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In Australia I was never offered something as exotic as baccala, salt cod: It was simply not a part of the Australian diet.
The Forever City Robert Hughes 2011
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In Rome, of course, baccala fritta was a staple of street food: Soak board-stiff slabs of cod for several days in changes of water, take off the skin, remove the bones, cut it into pieces as wide as two fingers, drop it in batter and then fry it in oil to a rich golden brown.
The Forever City Robert Hughes 2011
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If you make any kind of salt cod for the holidays, specifically brandade or baccala (where the stiff-as-a-board fish has been soaked in water or milk for days and then baked with softened potatoes, extra virgin olive oil and an astonishing amount of garlic), then the greatest New England delicacy ever invented is in order.
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And later we'd made our own Christmases, Bobby and Robert and I. Christmas Eve dinner atAnn Benedetto's, scungilli and calamari and baccala, the walk home through a cold Brooklyn night along streets bright as day with litup lawn reindeer and sleighs and Mr. Costanza's house, that got in the Daily News every year because it took $500 worth of Con Ed juice to light it for a week.
Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998
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The port is without a sail, excepting that once in a while a solitary felucca may be seen, disgorging its holy cargo of baccala, the meagre provision for the Quaresima or Lent.
Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821
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For starters, diners can get a salad of winter chicories with Parmesan ($8), but then you move into more polarizing ingredients such as white anchovies, bottarga, baccala, sardines, tripe and pork belly.
SFGate: Top News Stories Michael Bauer 2010
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On Christmas Eve we had the traditional Italian Feast Of The Seven Fishes - baccala, fried smelts and salmon.
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It will be a buffet-style feast with classic fish dishes like stuffed calamari, baccala and red mullet.
NYT > Home Page By BAO ONG 2010
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For the daring diner, there's still enough esoterica on this menu for adventure: melt-away sweetbread nuggets fried in an almond flour; frilly-edged ribbons of tripe broiled with white beans in bright red sauce beneath a Parmesan crust; a decadently funky crock of creamy baccala; and fried lamb's tongue that, with its orange pepper puree and pickled red onions, evoked deep-fried corned beef in a pleasantly gamy, deconstructed reuben.
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On Christmas Eve we had the traditional Italian Feast Of The Seven Fishes - baccala, fried smelts and salmon.
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