By the best accounts, Bottarga seems to be of Phoenician origin. (Modern day Lebanon) The Arabs brought it with them when they settled in Sicily, and from there it was taken to Provence in Mediterranean France.
According to a document dated 1386, a Catalonian-Aragonese ship captured another corsair ship from Oristano loaded with “eel and Bottarga.” In 1400, Batrolomeo Platina said that he had “no memory of eating anything more exquisite,” and that it was an “honest pleasure and for good health.”
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