I was flipping through my copy of Culinaria Italy, and early in the book the authors told of Friuli, a region up in Northern Italy. I read an interesting story of polenta and how it came to be in Friuli back in the 17th century. It was a tale of an oppressive Venetian government and [...]

This all started when I was watching an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, where Guy Fieri went to San Diego to visit a local spot called Blue Water. While the grilled fish sandwiches and fish tacos looked appealing, it wasn’t until they introduced their variation of what’s called Cioppino that I was drooling.