Culinary Adventures with Camilla

In January, Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  kicked off her new group: Soup Saturday Swappers. This month Ashley of  Cheese Curd in Paradise  is hosting. And she wrote: "Share a recipe unique to your state, city, or even your neighborhood!" I am SO excited about this as it is definitely turning to soup season. And I love having new recipes, especially if they are regional and meaningful to my fellow blogging friends! Thanks for the inspiration, Ashley. The Regional Soup Pot An InLinkz Link-up San Francisco Besides Rome, San Francisco is my favorite city. Here I am with my Love, years ago, on a weekend get-away with some friends. We usually hit the City every December to celebrate our younger son's birthday (he's a Christmas baby). San Francisco is close enough for us (just a 2 hour drive without traffic) to be accessible for a quick day trip, but it's also just far enough to be special. And Jake and I just spent the wee...

For some reason, there is a debate as to whether or not cioppino is really an Italian dish. General foodie-consensus seems to be that cioppino , as we know it here, is really an Italian-American creation that became an iconic San Franciscan dish...and has no roots in any regional Italian dishes. I read that it could be 'cioppino' is simply an American bastardization of 'ciupin' which, in turn, was simply the truncation of the Italian zuppina , or “little soup.” But looking closer at the Genovese ciupin recipe, it relies heavily on bony fish and does not include the variety of seafood found in cioppino . A soup that is closer to cioppino might be cacciucco alla Livorno or buridda from Liguria . But having lived, worked, and cooked in Italy, whatever you want to call it - cioppino , ciupin , cacciucco, or buridda - I think this is a quintessential Italian seafood stew. It's made with whatever seafood is readily available; the flavor combinations are all ver...