Cioppino excerpted from Around the World in Your Slow Cooker: Global-Inspired, Family-Friendly Recipes by Victoria Shearer. Photography by Candice Bell.
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Around the World in Your Slow Cooker: Global-Inspired, Family-Friendly Recipes by Victoria Shearer
Cioppino
The word “cioppino” comes from the Ligurian language’s “ciuppin,” which is the name of a classic seafood soup from the Italian region of Liguria. Flavoured with garlic, herbs, and a tomato-wine sauce, it was similar in flavor to today’s American version of cioppino but with less tomato. Italian-Americans who fished off of Meiggs’ Wharf in San Francisco in the late 1800s are credited with developing present- day cioppino. Legend has it that when a fisherman came back empty-handed, he walked around the wharf asking the other more fortunate fishermen to “chip in, chip in” and share some of their catch. Cioppino is a combination of fish, shrimp, and shellfish with fresh tomatoes in a wine sauce.
