Seafood-Friday
Our last day in Santander
Santander’s kitchen includes “traditional sailor food".
The city's restaurants use fresh and excellent seafood from the fish market. You
can find all categories of restaurants among the various districts of the city.
In the harbor area you can find many restaurants and taverns, but also a lot of
expensive mesons and tapas bars. e. g. in Mola and Hernán Cortés Road.
During our last trip to the
centre of Santander, we visited the fish market and Max bought a big crab,
which was still alive. It was a great animal, orange-colored and with interesting
pincers. It was amazing!
But could we find somebody who would prepare it for
us?
Yes, we could. In the harbor area we went in a
restaurant and asked for it. While some of us ordered the normal lunch menu Max
got the crab well prepared and didn’t have to pay for it. The rest of the group
was allowed to taste it. Eating crab is not as easy as eating noodles. There
was a lot of work to get eatable pieces. But of course we all showed good
manners and had fun!
Buen provecho!
Bon appetit! Bom apetite!
“Qué delicia!”
But our crab was not as big as this one!
It could have been the following kind
of crab:
Cancer pagurus, commonly known as the edible
crab or brown crab, is a species of crab found in the North Sea, North Atlantic
Ocean and perhaps in the Mediterranean Sea. It is a robust crab of a
reddish-brown colour, having an oval carapace with a characteristic "pie
crust" edge and black tips to the claws. A mature adult may have a
carapace width of up to 25 cm and weigh up to 3 kg. C. pagurus is a nocturnal
predator, targeting a range of mollusks and crustaceans. It is the subject of
the largest crab fishery in Western Europe, centered around the coasts of the
British Isles, with more than 60,000 t caught annually. (Source: Wikipedia)
Nice job!!!
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