On the other hand, grilled sea bream topped with lightly fried garlic is one of the favourites dishes in the seaside restaurants. Basque people like cod very much. It seems that in the Middle Ages they discovered cod banks in Newfoundland, and developed a method of drying and salting the fish, which has survived up to the present times. It has been said that, until some years ago, cod was a poor man's food. That is why it revolts people who see it for the first time.
Summer is also the tuna season.
They are the elvers or young of the fish that swim back up the rivers from the Sargasso Sea. But owing to their growing shortage, the price of elvers is getting far too high for the mayority of people's pockets. It has been stated that future generations will not get to know this delicious dish. Beans and corn, the traditional ingredients of Basque cuisine. Apart from fish, there is a great variety of delicious vegetables, pulses, meat, mushroom dishes, ect.