Ok, so you're driving from Tuscany to Switzerland through the Valle d'Aosta and just as you cross the border with Piemonte you notice on a map that there's a town named Pont-Saint-Martin. Being a namesake, you turn the car and head there for lunch.
It's Sunday, so there might be no open tables in the restaurants since Sunday is the traditional day for families to go out and have a feast that lasts for hours and hours. But we lucked out. We not only got a table, we splurged on some fish.
"Some fish!" An understatement. You might think we had stumbled upon a wedding and we were photographing a heaping platter of Pesce alla Griglia meant for a whole banquet table. Two slabs of salmon, a couple filets of sole two skewers of calamari, six prawns, two gray mullets, whole. For two, mind you.
St. Martin is known for his ability to trick the devil like he did at the humpback bridge that gives Pont-Saint-Martin its name. Perhaps he multiplies fishes as well. What two travelers on a summer's eve could eat such a platterful?
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