A Summer visit to the Med – and peasant food fit for kings. Just thinking about it lifts the spirits. Our poet Colin Hopkirk brings us the savour of Menorcan dried salted cod and beans on this Day 574 of the daily poems …
Bacalao
Bacalao and beans
farmers’ beans
lightly dressed
in garlic and fresh herbs
virgin oil
the cod caught here
the crust just so
the simplest of things
a fisherman’s repast
peasant food
fit for kings
Colin Hopkirk