Lisa Lieberman’s Reviews > Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy > Status Update

Del Giudice, a great amateur of local gastronomy, wanted me to taste the eels, which at this time of the year are a specialty of the town . . .The eels were being skinned alive in full view of the customers, chopped up and thrown into a frying-pan where they continued to squirm, and on one occasion a cook pulled a live octopus out of a tank, sliced off a tentacle to add to some soup, and threw it back again.