<p>Bacalao also a type of salted cod, and a traditional must-eat during Lent for some in Latin America. I caught my Cucan-Venzuelan MIL sitting in the living room while the stuff cooked in the kitchen at the other end of the house. She couldn’t stand the smell but felt obligated to cook it anyway. And for whatever reason, it had to be boiled without a lid on it.</p>
<p>The only one in the whole family who would even touch the stuff was her own mother who had been born in a mountain village in Spain.</p>