Bianchetti

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Ran across a piece on these (also while waiting in Dr.'s office).
"Itty bitty bianchetti are big this time of year in Sicily,where the locals go wild for the little larval offspring (or neonata) of the pesce azzurro category (anchovies,sardines,mackerel,and the like).

[Don Cuevas]

Something like anguillas, which, by the way, I've never tasted. VERY expensive.

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The piece did say they are as hard to find here (NYC) as they must be to catch,but they import them from Greece. He includes a street-food style fritter recipe Frittelle di Bianchetti if anyone's interested.

[bixaorellana]

My mother tells a funny story of eating unborn eel in a fancy restaurant, claiming that all the untimely ripped babies were arranged to stare up at her sadly.

Anguillas in the can seem to be the baby or pre-baby eels, but looking for anguilla recipes, all I could find were for the grown-ups.

I have seem surimi baby anguilla in cans. Wrap your mind around that.

Oh well, at least we now know what to serve for Good Friday: Last Supper menu. I am yearning to try those bianchetti though.

[Don Cuevas]

It's doubtful that eel could have been served at The Last Supper (a Passover meal), as eel is not kosher.
www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/623273/jewish/Is-eel-kosher.htm

The menu of The Last Supper is as interpreted by Leonardo.