Rosh Hashanah Seven-Vegetable Soup

In her book Marrakech la rouge: les juifs de la medina, Helen Ganz Perez reminisces about the soupe aux sept legumes that was part of her family’s Rosh Hashanah tradition. The seven “vegetables” are onion, pumpkin, vegetable marrow, zucchini, Swiss chard, chickpeas, and quince. I could not get over how closely it resembles the Andalusían olla gitana, or gypsy stew, which uses pears instead of quince. I suspect that the “gypsy” title was added as a cover, after the Jews