Back in 1998, during a mostly boring stay in Bavaria, Nico jotted down some common Algarvian fish species on a sheet of paper. Listing his favorite fish by their Portuguese and scientific names, he was confronted with a striking lack of reliable information on Lusitanian fish and seafood species and their preparation and got on the track. What had been intended as a hand-out for friends, kept on growing for the next five years and inevitably took the shape of a book. As a co-author, Andrea checked the scientific facts, did the proofreading and managed the production.

By December 2003, the German edition of »The Algarve Fish Book« was born, and so was »Edition MARISOL«, with the authors doubling the publishers´ part, aside from running their company MARISOL® sea salt. In 2004, the book won the »Gourmand World Cookbook Award« as the best German fish and seafood cookbook and was one of the finalists in the international competition.

After the English edition was published in July 2005, Nico and Andrea started distributing a German nature guidebook for Southern Portugal the same year. 2006 saw them running out of stock with the German books and consequently, the set to work on a new version of »Fische der Algarve«. The second edition has been critically revised before reprinting and is out since November 2006.

Fischillustration unter Verwendung eines kolorierten Stiches aus Blochs Naturgeschichte der Fische, mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Mergus-Verlages.