Monkfish Marinelli

HALLANDALE, FLORIDA, 1976 TOMMY AGRO’S APARTMENT

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I named this recipe in honor of a Colombo crime family soldier who used to pull B&Es with me up in Connecticut. He was also a big fisherman, and taught me how to fillet a fish. I usually only prepared this dish at home for me and my wife, Bunny. But when Tommy Agro called about a week after he’d hit town—still laying low in Florida—I decided to get a little daring. By this time he’d calmed down a little, so when he ordered me to get over to his apartment to cook dinner and discuss a race we were planning to fix at Gulfstream Park, I stopped by a dockside fishmonger on the way and picked up a fresh monkfish.