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JOSEP PLA I LA NOSTRA CUINA

 
 

“... The sea urchins, these animals in the shape of ball, blacks with a reddish point, bristled of tops, seized to the rocks now dry and touched for the sun. On the north Coast they call them garotes , and we garoines , it can be give to the word a point of smoothing related to the delicacy ".

“These hedgehogs are caught easily, are opened in channel and inside they contain a few certain products - red - to eat. In coastal this one when the decreases come, the people aspire to eat hedgehogs ".

“They have to be gathered alive, when they are seized to the rocks of the coast, and open them of up to down ".

“When they are opened, the prongs that go out of his exterior rind do a movement of retractation that they must be last contractions of animal. There are many, probably why its prongs avoid his decoration for the surrounding animals ".

“What they have inside is very valuable, especially for the persons to whom they there please the things that have flavour to sea ".

Josep Pla. Les Hores .
Ed. Destino, vol. 20 o.c., p. 60 i 61.


 
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