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Venice · since 2001

The taste ofVenetian tradition

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

From a shipwreck, a heritage

1431

The departure

Pietro Querini sets sail from Candia aboard the cog Querina: Malvasia wine, spices, cotton and silks, bound for Flanders.

1432

The shipwreck

A storm drives the Querina far past Ireland. The survivors land at Røst, in the Lofoten islands, where they discover stockfish.

1596

Stocvis in Venice

The Flemish merchant Marco Manart petitions the Senate to bring into the lagoon "the fish called stocvis".

2001

The foundation

From an idea of Dino Boscarato the Confraternita is born, presented at the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista.

2026

The 25th and UNESCO

Twenty-five years of activity and the dossier for the UNESCO candidacy of the cultural traditions of stockfish.

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The Recipe

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

The Restaurants

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

Become a member

Enthusiasts, connoisseurs, gourmets: the Confraternita is open to all who care about tradition.

Our values

Three words, one commitment

Tradition

We safeguard and hand down the original recipe of Baccalà Mantecato, preserving a heritage of Venetian gastronomic culture.

Quality

We promote respect for the ingredients, the preparation techniques and the authenticity that make Baccalà Mantecato unique.

Conviviality

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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The twenty-fifth anniversary mark of the Dogale Confraternita del Baccalà Mantecato

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