Marmitako Foodways

Specialised

Bonito, potato, onion and pepper cooked in the pot the dish is named for, eaten aboard by tuna crews and now a summer restaurant fixture. The potato and the pepper are both post-Columbian, so the dish as eaten cannot be older than the late eighteenth century however old the fishery is.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

Languages: Basque

What is recorded

Potato and pepper are both post-Columbian, so marmitako as eaten cannot predate the late eighteenth century even though the tuna fishery is far older. A pre-Columbian marmitako would have been a different dish. documented

Recipes

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