L’Ultima Ribollita

Ribollita, a Florentine bean soup that is based on bread, is called zuppa del cane (“soup of the dog”) in Tuscany because it’s so elemental. “If this soup is for dogs,” says Luisa Cappelli, “those dogs are extremely lucky.”

Luisa was born in Tuscany, but she married a man from Genoa and lived in that city for decades, returning to Chianti from time to time to tend the vineyards from which she makes wine and Vin Santo. She l