Rachel Roddy's recipe for anchovy and roast tomato salad |A kitchen in Rome

Buy the best anchovies and tomatoes you can lay your hands on for this intensely flavoured salad There are 32 ways to say "anchovy" in Italian. Thirty-two regional names, many of them in dialect, for the small, slender fish with silvery sides and receding lower jaw. The most common names, though, for the much-loved chinless wonder are two: alici and acciughe. While anchovies are abundant in the Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific oceans, they remain rare for many because they are so fragile, deter...