France · Food & Beverage Craft; Street food craft; Nice heritage
Fabrication de la Socca Niçoise
The making of socca — a large flat chickpea flour pancake cooked in a wood-fired copper pan (tian de cuivre) at extremely high temperature, producing a crisp, slightly charred exterior and a soft, creamy interior. Socca is the defining street food of Nice, sold from mobile wood-fired ovens in the cours Saleya market. The technique requires managing a wood fire and a very large copper pan simultaneously to maintain the extreme temperature required — socca burns in 5 minutes at correct temperature and is raw in 10 at incorrect temperature.
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