In Calabria, Getting a Taste of an Unspoiled Italian Summer

CN Traveler – In this part of Calabria, Antonio explained, fishermen still scratch a crosshatched pattern with their nails on the cheeks of the swordfish they catch. They do this to free the souls of Achilles’s loyal warriors, the Myrmidons, who transformed into these sleek, powerful silver-blue fish after the death of their commander.