Soups

Soups and their innumerable “trimmings” in the way of ravioli, gnocchi, spaghetti and all manner of appetising delicacies, are very popular in Italy. Each province, each city, small town or even village, seems to boast of its own particular soup or of some special and characteristic accompaniment to it. These various pastes—made with either eggs and flour, potato flour, maize flour, semolina, rice, forcemeat dumplings of all descriptions, although extensively used in Austria, Germany and Russia, are of Italian origin and typically Italian.