Fried octopus

The story of Fried octopus

Octopus, ’o purpo, is one of the oldest street foods in Naples. In 1884 Matilde Serao describes the women who, with a little stove and a clay pot, sold for two soldi “a piece of octopus boiled in seawater, seasoned with fiery hot pepper”. Octopus broth is still sold by the cup at Porta Capuana; the writer Giuseppe Marotta called it “the tea of the sea”.