Beach and Shells
by Loredana Gallo Migliorini
Title
Beach and Shells
Artist
Loredana Gallo Migliorini
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Photograph - Fotografia,
Description
A beautiful sunny day draws many people to walk on the beach. The sun is high in the sky and makes all things bright, shadows and lights alternate and turn shapes into silhouettes.
In Italy, on the Adriatic many people go for a walk on the sand carrying bags to collect shells and molluscs named "cannolicchi" from the beach.
The cannolicchi, also called cappalunga or sea candles, are bivalve mollusks which contain inside a long sea fruit similar to a candle.
In order to catch these molluscs, a thin rod is brought along, a little salt is put on the hole of the shellfish that lives vertically in the sand, feeling the salt the mollusk opens its shell and by inserting the rod the cannolicchio is extracted.
Externally they are brown with yellowish and greyish streaks, but the fruit inside is white. Salty and fleshy, cannolicchi are typical of the Adriatic cuisine where they are fished and cooked in many ways.
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