🇮🇹 Taormina

The beach where they launched the boat to go "fishing" and then dropped dead fish, octopus, and shellfish into the water around Tony. He described his feelings on this experience saying he slid "quickly into a spiral of near hysterical depression." After this scene he gets really drunk.

Tony had dinner here after the disastrous "fishing" expedition. It's his birthday and he doesn't remember any of the meal because he drank so much. Tomaso and his wife (locals) had the meal together. They ate white olives, bread, olive oil, abalone served raw in the shell, baby sardines called neonata with citrus and salt, octopus, tuna tartare, cuttlefish crudo, pasta alfino querta (a true Sicilian classic made with fennel, pine nuts, saffron, and anchovy. Served with anchovy curing in chestnuts and salt for days, then lightly fried in oil.

Ampitheater