This Greek dish maintains an old fisherman’s tradition of preserving one’s catch in bottles of seawater.

Source: Atlas Obscura

Kalymnos, located in Greece’s Dodecanese group of islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea, is known for its diverse array of seafood dishes. These delights range from lobster tails to fried octopus ink sacs. One Kalymnos dish represents not only the island’s unique cuisine, but also its rich seafaring tradition: spinialo, a dish of sea squirts (fouskes) marinated in a bottle of seawater.

Although they are cleverly disguised as rocks, sea squirts are actually primitive marine vertebrates.

They feel like a hard sponge and attach themselves to rocks, shells, and even ships’ hulls. When cut in half, they reveal soft,…

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