Macco e verdure

When once asked what she would eat at her proverbial last meal, cookbook author and teacher Marcella Hazan said she would want macco e verdure. This robust fava purée topped with greens appears throughout the Italian south and goes under a variety of names: macco e verdure, or maccù in dialect, in Sicily; ’ncapriata in Apulia; and fave e bietole or fave e cicoria in Calabria. The bean purée is similar to the Greek spread called fava (made wit