[The head as a culinary delight]

Sculpin is a first class white fish from the deep sea. Although it can often be purchased frozen, if you did not try a fresh one – you do not know what a real sculpin tastes like. The best part of the fish, and that only the experts know - is the head!

Premium culinary delight. Lobster Pasta is one of the most famous original dishes from Lastovo, prepared there for ages. Here is how to prepare it:

INGREDIENTS

• 1kg of lobster
• ½ kg of prawns
• ½ kg of pasta (tagliatelle)
• one larger onion
• ½ dl of olive oil
• tomato puree or canned peeled tomatoes or ½ kg of fresh tomatoes
• 2 dl of dry white wine
• a tablespoon of bread crumbs, salt, pepper, fresh basil

A popular speciality, sardines on a scewer are an authentic Lastovo dish, although some other islands have embraced it and even claim it to be theirs. But no matter, you certainly have to try this simple, cheap yet top quality dish.

Prepare

• 10-12 large sardines per person
• salt
• 50 cm long wooden skewer, the flatter the better, about 2 cm wide.

Food from Lastovo. The archipelago of Lastovo is rich in first class fish, so the taverns and restaurants along the sea coast are great to eat in. The best fish restaurants are in Skrivena Luka, Zaklopatica or in Pasadur, and for meat dishes roasted under the bell with home made bread and a glass of top quality maraština wine best go to the farm at Podanje in the centre of the island.

• 1 kg of fish (dory, grouper, saddled seabream, seabream, mullet, bogue bream)
• ½  kg of potatoes
• ½ dl of olive oil
• one onion
• 5-6 cloves of garlic
• a bunch of parsley, bay leaf, ground pepper, salt, lemon