Spicy Sausage and Rice Soup

I am not going to lie and say the pizza place we would order take-out from growing up was a super-authentic hole-in-the-wall because it definitely wasn’t: It was a place called Bertucci’s, which is a wide-spread Italian chain in Massachusetts and throughout the Northeast. What I remember about it, though, wasn’t the pizza—it was the soup. Every time we called in an order, my mom would order a cup of their Italian sausage soup. I was usually too busy scarfing down my slices to pay much atten