These Crispy Fried Anchovies, known as Hamsi Tava in Turkish, is a popular dish along Turkey’s Black Sea coast. Crispy, ...

Heat olive oil in a deep frying pan. Place an anchovy between two sage leaves, like a sandwich. Repeat until all the anchovies and sage leaves are used up. Then dip the sage sandwiches into egg and ...

Though it also figures in many other Mediterranean cuisines, along the Anchovy Coast it assumes dozens of fetching guises—from traditional preparations like boquerónes (pickled fresh anchovies), ...

Deliciously salty and moreish, one is never enough when it comes to these stuffed olives. Chop five of the olives with the anchovies and capers, by hand or in a small food processor. Mix well so that ...

Mr. Beckman is an archaeologist and the author of “A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavored Western Cuisine,” from which this essay is adapted. He wrote from Barcelona, Spain. To ...