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Giornate del baccalà alla Locanda alla Stella di Camporovere

As per tradition in many towns in the Veneto region and in particular after the carnival, in the small village of Camporovere di Roana, it is customary to celebrate Ash Wednesday with dinner all focused on the proposal of a menu completely dedicated to COD and STOCKFISH.

From 1 to 5 March 2025, and especially on Carnival Wednesday or Ash Wednesday, at the Locanda alla Stella, a menu is offered based only on recipes with cod and stockfish such as bigoli with cod, pizza with cod, creamed cod with croutons, gnocchi with cod, the classic polenta and cod and many other novelties all based on cod processed by their chefs.

Reservations are recommended.

A bit of history... On 25 April 1431 Pietro Querini set sail from Candia, towards Flanders aboard the Caracca Querina with a cargo of 800 barrels of Malvasia and other valuable goods, equal to about 500 tons.  It was shipwrecked and hijacked due to repeated storms that destroyed the carrack, breaking the rudder and masts. On December 17, the crew decided to abandon the half-sunken wreck and split up: 18 embarked on a schifo (a sort of lifeboat) and 47 on a second, larger launch, including the three officers. There was no more news of the first boat, but the larger launch drifted for a long time amidst food rationing and continuous deaths, fortunately touching land on January 14, 1432 on the desert island of Sandøy, near Røst in the Norwegian archipelago of Lofoten, with 16 surviving sailors.

Querini and his companions lived for eleven days bivouacking on the coast feeding on limpets and lighting fires to warm themselves. These were spotted by fishermen from the island of Røst, the closest, who came to their aid and hosted them in their homes. The population of the island of Røst, which the Venetians called Rustene, about 120 inhabitants, was dedicated to fishing and drying cod. The Venetians remained on the island for about four months, and Querini wrote a detailed report for the Senate, now preserved in the Vatican Apostolic Library.

On 15 May 1432 Querini was helped by fishermen to leave for Venice; bringing with them dried stockfish. On the return journey he passed through Trondheim, Vadstena and London, where he was a guest of the then powerful Venetian community that resided on the Thames. From there, after 24 days on horseback, the "captain of the sea" finally arrived in Venice on October 12, 1432. The idea of stockfish was imported there, which immediately enjoyed great success and which the Venetians learned to appreciate, both for its gastronomic goodness and for its characteristics of a long-life food very useful both in sea and land voyages, as well as for the characteristic of being a "lean food", so as to become one of the recommended dishes in the more than 200 lean days, fixed, together with food, on December 4, 1563, the date of the XXV and last session of the Council of Trent.

The adventurous story of the introduction of Stockfish, a name from the Old Dutch stocvisch, or "stick fish" or "dried fish on sticks", a word composed of stoc "stick" and visch "fish". But it could also come from the English stockfish, or "storage fish", it takes us to the present day where we are waiting for you in our small mountain village, Camporovere di Roana, as if to similarly recall the small fishing community of the island of Røst.

Dishes and preparations that we find on our tables today declining them in various recipes and where, for us, the recipe for Baccalà alla Vicentina is the prince.


For information and reservations you can contact the Locanda alla Stella directly, by clicking on the green button below.

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