Risi E Bisi (Veneto)

This typical Venetian soup, popular throughout the whole of Italy, was the dish which was always served to the Doges on the occasion of the feast of San Marco. The characteristic of most of the Venetian “minestre” is their thickness—in fact, in this country Italian minestre would hardly be called “soups,” being more in the nature of what, in old English cooking, was called “pottage.”

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