next to polenta. In the Italian region of Basilicata, the so-called baccalà alla lucana is prepared with typical peppers called "cruschi" (dialect word for "crispy"). In Calabria stockfish is widely used, especially in the western side of the region: pasta with stockfish is a staple in Christmas Eve. Dishes made from stockfish (locally called bakalar) are traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve in Croatia, especially Dalmatia. In Catalonia, stockfish is an ingredient of a kind of surf and turf named es niu. Stockfish is popular in West Africa, especially in Nigeria where it is used as flavor and fish in the many soups (sauces) like Egusi, Afang, Ukazi, Oha, Efo Riro, Okra, etc, that are eaten with fufu meals, such as pounded yam, fufu, and garri meals. It is the main ingredient in the Nigerian delicacy called "Ugba na Okporoko" or "ukazi" amongst the Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, Anang, Kalabari, Igbani, Ikwerre, etc, people of south eastern Nigeria. Most importers of "okporoko" are based in the town of Aba in Abia State. Among the Nri, Aro, Nkwerre, and Umuahia people, at festive periods, the popular meal is the Ukazi soup which is usually well-garnished with okporoko or Cod as it is popularly called. The Kwe people, who are a fishing people of the English-speaking part of Cameroon, use stockfish in flavoring their palm nut or banga, which can be eaten with a cocoyam pudding called kwacoco. The name okporoko for stockfish, among the Igbo of Nigeria refers to the sound the hard fish makes in the pot and literally translates as "that which produces sound in the pot". Both stockfish and salt cod can be made into lutefisk. Gallery See also Boknafisk Bugeo – similarly dried Alaska pollock List of dried foods Lofoten Stockfish Museum Notes References Kurlansky, Mark (1997). Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. New York: Walker. . Silva, António J. M. da, In the Shadow of the Salt Cod. Writing vs Staging the Stockfish History in the Iberian Peninsula, TAE - Trabalhos de Antropologia e de Etnologia , vol. 61, 2021, pp. 167–209. PDF http://www.safetrackfood.eu/ Dried fish Snack foods Fish processing