1431
The departure
Pietro Querini sets sail from Candia aboard the cog Querina: Malvasia wine, spices, cotton and silks, bound for Flanders.
Venice · since 2001
For 25 years the Dogale Confraternita has safeguarded the original recipe of baccalà mantecato (Venice's whipped stockfish cream) and the culture grown around it.
More than 500 years
1431
Pietro Querini sets sail from Candia aboard the cog Querina: Malvasia wine, spices, cotton and silks, bound for Flanders.
1432
A storm drives the Querina far past Ireland. The survivors land at Røst, in the Lofoten islands, where they discover stockfish.
1596
The Flemish merchant Marco Manart petitions the Senate to bring into the lagoon "the fish called stocvis".
2001
From an idea of Dino Boscarato the Confraternita is born, presented at the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista.
2026
Twenty-five years of activity and the dossier for the UNESCO candidacy of the cultural traditions of stockfish.

Ingredients, gestures and timing of the traditional mantecato, explained by the Savio di Bocca, the Confraternita's "Sage of the Palate".

45 addresses where the mantecato is made as it should be, from Venice to the world.

Enthusiasts, connoisseurs, gourmets: the Confraternita is open to all who care about tradition.
Our values
We safeguard and hand down the original recipe of Baccalà Mantecato, preserving a heritage of Venetian gastronomic culture.
We promote respect for the ingredients, the preparation techniques and the authenticity that make Baccalà Mantecato unique.
We believe food is culture, sharing and friendship: values that have always united people, places and generations.
"How refined, indeed most refined, is baccalà mantecato, a supremely Venetian dish if ever there was one?"
Alvise Zorzi, historian of all things Venetian
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Sabato 3 ottobre la loggia del Mercato del Pesce di Rialto si è riempita per i venticinque anni della Dogale. Il racconto della serata, i Sigilli del Venticinquennale, i dieci locali della Rotta e le foto di Riccardo Davoli.
Dalle 20.00 di sabato 3 ottobre la festa dei venticinque anni esce da Rialto. Dieci fra ristoranti, trattorie e osterie, da Venezia alla terraferma, servono il crostino di baccalà mantecato con il vino scelto per l'occasione.
Un pesce duro come un remo, un martello, tre giorni di pazienza e un cucchiaio di legno. Perché il baccalà mantecato è cibo per eletti, e perché per entrare nella categoria non serve un cognome antico.
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