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In reply to the discussion: What's the best meal for a cold, overcast, damp day? [View all]mulsh
(2,959 posts)food, the aroma of tomatoes, garlic, fresh fish and shell fish. My family tradition is to make enough for a couple of days. You can also freeze it with out disastrous results. I took over cioppino duties from my father.
"This Cioppino recipe is undeniably a San Francisco original, made famous in the 1850s by Genoese immigrant Giuseppe Bazzuro at his eponymous restaurant. Derived from the traditional ciuppinwhich means "little soup" in the Genoese dialectthe dish was originally a puree of cooked vegetables and leftover fish scraps. Over the years, Bay area chefs transformed it into a luxurious stew using local delicacies such as dungeness crab, as in this version from the city's legendary Tadich Grill."
This recipe is similar to the one we work with:
https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Cioppino-