The Stockfish Cult🐟 Arise Sir Stockfish! Bizarre 'Knights' tour Italy protecting ancient recipe for mummified fish The Venerable Confraternity of Stockfish, based in Sandrigo in northern Italy, are a collection of 40 chefs, diplomats, farmers and wine-makers dedicated to keeping the 500-year-old recipe of Baccala alla Vicentina - using the unsalted, dried fish - alive.
The creature is so revered by the group that new members are 'knighted' with a mummified metre-long stockfish in a bizarre ceremony that attracts thousands of visitors each year. Stockfish lovers longing for such an honour can wait 15 years to be allowed in - and when this edible fish first touches their shoulders during the ceremony, some chefs have been known to burst into tears of joy.
The fish was imported from Norway by Venetian merchants in the 1400s but the recipes and ways of cooking evolved in Vicenza area, which is the major importer of cod in Italy. But the society now fears that the recipe is becoming endangered by modern cuisine, and have battled to make sure it is protected at both a national and European level.
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