Scilla. and i m in for the royal treatment. this one. nice fish. this swordfish was caught so recently, you can eat it straight off the bone. caught this fresh and sliced this fine, it s like prosciutto and smoked salmon had a love child. oh, it s so good. wow, it s incredible. next, johnny wants to cook me something more traditional, scialatielli alla ghiotta, long, thin strands of pasta in a swordfish ragu of sorts. mm-hmm. he starts things off with a sofrito of garlic and sweet tropea onion. i d like to have a shirt made out of basil. thank you for coming. thank you for having me. is it good? delicious. mm. yeah. yep. you should open a restaurant. that s really good. and see the swordfish boats? and they re up in the sort of crow s nest up there. it s really beautiful. it s curious to think of calabrians still heading out into these perilous waters to
and they caught swordfish. remarkably, a traditional form of swordfishing passed down from the ancient greeks is still practiced here in the waters around scilla to this day. request with their hands? we re heading to the family s restaurant, the prince of scilla .
Than the swordfish. catching one of these sabered sea monsters is not easy, but it is lucrative. a single fish can fetch up to $5,000. yesterday, 20. 20? yes. really? today, only one. every day is different. every day s different, yeah. you want to buy it? i don t have room in my hotel. johnny s promised some fresh swordfish awaits me at his place. but before getting lunch, we stop off to have a look at his hometown, scilla. this town dates back to a time when calabria was at the heart of magna graecia, greece s empire in italy. wow. that s sicily? yes, this sicily, ganzirri. the other side of this is scilla and charybdis. ancient greek legends like the odyssey told of the perilous passage in this narrow strait, where sailors were forced to choose between a vicious sea monster called scylla and a deadly whirlpool. is this true or no, it s true. it s true. it s not mythical? remarkably, a traditional form of swordfishing passed down from the ancient greeks is still practiced here in the waters around scilla to this day. we re heading to the family s restaurant, the prince of