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MEN WHO LOVE ANCHOVIES
Steven C. Levi
Steven C. Levi
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Feb 22, 2020
LIVING WITH WOMEN WHO DO NOT
MEN WHO LOVE ANCHOVIES
LIVING WITH WOMEN WHO DO NOT
Steven Levi
There are in this world, alas, far too many people who do not properly appreciate or revere the anchovy. I know this may come as a shock to many readers but there are a large number of people in both America and abroad who are not fans of this fine fish. They eschew anchovies. They go to incredible lengths to avoid the tasty beastie. Barbarians they may be, but there a lot of them.
Moreover, to many anchovy gourmands, of course, this is un-understandable. While it is certainly true that the noble anchovy is zesty, rarely does it lack a unique taste. It also adds zip, pizzazz and sometimes an indefinable maritime sensation to an otherwise dull meal. After all, what’s a Caesar salad without the snap of anchovies? Why serve a pizza and fail to add a layer of the sumptuous delight? And why, pray tell, would anyone make a blue cheese and scallion sandwich and then neglect the delicate fillets of palatal delight? (Sourdough bread, please!)
Now, for those unfortunate readers who are not that familiar with the anchovy — and it must be admitted that there are a few — an anchovy is not a sardine. A sardine is a clupeid while an anchovy is an egraulidae. A sardine is a herring while an anchovy is, well, an anchovy. References to anchovies and sardines as being similar rise from time to time but this is a red herring for other than having similar tails, living in the water and being of approximately the same size — i.e., small — the two fish have nothing is common. An anchovy is a gourmet’s delight; a sardine is a fish in a can you eat on a camping trip when all your other food is gone.
