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Sardines
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Sardines

Description of the fish and its meats Sardines, also known as sardines or pilchards, are widespread throughout the Mediterranean and in the European waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Their body, slender and compressed at the sides, is about 20 centimeters long and has a characteristic silvery color which on the back gives rise to olive-green shades with a blue band on the sides

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Sea bass or sea bass

What is the Branzino The sea bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax L.), also known as sea bass, is a fish belonging to the family of the Moronidae and to the genus Dicentrarchus ; genus that - inside it - also counts another species, very similar, called spotted bass ( Dicentrarchus punctatus ). NB : Sea bass or sea bass should NOT be confused with bass-perch (hybrid species)
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Fish soup

Generality Fish broth is a recipe that belongs to the "kitchen bases". It has a liquid consistency, beige or straw color and clear transparency. On the palate it is tasty and very aromatic. Fish broth is prepared by exploiting the ability of boiling water to extract amino acids, mineral salts, certain vitamins and fragrant or tasty molecules
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Calamari

Generality Squids are fishery products widely distributed throughout the planet, quite similar to squid but classified by the modern system in a totally different way. Of calamari there are many genera and species, but the so-called "European" one (although present also in the North-East Atlantic Ocean) is framed in the Phylum of the Molluscs, Cephalopods Class, Order Teuthida, family Loliginidae, Genus Loligo , Species vulgaris
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Canestrelli - Sea Combs

Genres and Species Canestrelli are foods of animal origin that can be classified as fishery products. Also known as sea scallops, they belong to the Phylum dei Molluschi, more precisely to the Bivalve Class (or Lamellibranchi), the same as mussels, clams, fasolari, capesante, sea date and oysters). There are various types of canestrelli and to unify the description would represent a not very reliable simplification; in fact, apart from the "fairly" similar appearance, the various types of molluscs called scallops or sea scallops belong to different genera and species (although commonl
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Capito

What is the Capitone The female adult specimen of the eel is called capitone. It is a migratory fish - with an extremely complex life cycle - that lives in the sweet (or brackish) inland waters and reproduces in the salty ones of the central-southern Atlantic ocean; in Italy, the eel is consumed mainly during the Christmas period but, in certain specific locations (eg the Emilia Romagna coast of the Adriatic coast, Verona and Brescia along the Garda lake, etc
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razor

What are razor clams Cannolicchio , cappalunga and cannello are the common names of a bivalve mollusc belonging to the Solenidae family and to the genus Solen (species S. marginatus ). In reality there is not just one type of razor clam, but what we have mentioned is certainly the most widespread. Razor clams are also foods of animal origin that belong to the fundamental group of foods
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Mantis shrimps

What are The squills are products of sea (and lagoon) fishing known with the alternative names of sea cicada (improperly, since the true cicada of the sea would be the Scyllarus arctus or magnosella), panicchie, panocchie and canocie. The shrimp are crustaceans belonging to the Malacostraca Class, Hoplocarida Subclass, Squillidae family, Genus Squilla, Species mantis ; the binomial nomenclature of the shrimp is Squilla mantis
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Scallops

What are Scallops The scallops or shells of S. Giacomo - family Pectinidae, genus Pecten and species P. jacobaeus - are edible and (from the gastronomic point of view) bivalve molluscs (or lamellibranches ) very valuable; scallops consume the internal nut (muscle) and coral (gonads), while the viscera should be minutely excluded by cleaning and processing the animal
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Mullet

Generality "Cephalus" is a term that derives from the Greek; literally means "head", therefore it is not surprising that the fish thus named boasts a leader of considerable importance and robustness. By mullet we mean a group of fish (about 75 Species per 20 Genres) that can be grouped in the Order of the Mugiliformes and in the Mugilidae family, accumulated by structural and morphological characteristics quite similar to each other
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Grouper by R.Borgacci

What's this What is the grouper? Cernia is the name of a bony sea fish well known for its excellent meat and frequently used for food purposes. Of the first fundamental group of foods - foods rich in proteins with high biological value, mineral salts and specific vitamins - the grouper is a fishery product that can not be considered white fish - such as the bream, bream, tanuta etc
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