Fondamenta Ca' Balà, the street next to the Magazzini del Sale (salt warehouses) is named after the baccalà, one of the protagonists of Venetian recipes.
In the 1400s, the warehouses hosted the salted codfish, which came to Venice from the northern seas. The ship of an explorer from the Serenissima, Pietro Querini, went adrift on a Norwegian island, and the seamen enjoyed the local stockfish so much that they returned to Venice with an abundant supply of the white and soft treasure.
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