Back at our hotel that night, we got to see – and eat – a fish boil boilover. It’s much like a shrimp boil, but in a cast iron pot over an open fire. I don’t exactly understand this, but they put so much salt in the water that it changes the specific gravity of the water when it boils. What am I saying – I don’t understand it at all. Anyway, they put in the potatoes to boil in this serious salt water, then onions, then hunks of whitefish. When the fish oil rises to the top it’s done, and it makes sort of a head of foam on the pot. Then they pour kerosene on the fire, and it flames up like this, and the water boils over, and it does something to that salty water that makes everything more delicious. Again – I do not understand it, but I thought it was really tasty. And very cool to see 🙂
