Sopa Coada

Squab Soup

Preparation info
  • For

    6

    Persons
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Marcella's Italian Kitchen

By Marcella Hazan

Published 1986

  • About

In Its richness, in its monumentally robust flavor, squab soup makes me think of legendary feasts in some earlier, hardier century. It is, in fact, one of the oldest dishes in the cuisine of the Veneto, its roots perhaps too deep to establish its provenance exactly. Its origin is attributed, depending on the scholar, to Verona, to Treviso, to one or another of the Veneto’s towns. The version I have liked the best was in Treviso, whose home cooking may be the most interesting in all Italy, a