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Originally Posted by Serrart
The historic explanation is that Italian cuisine has been originated by many poor dishes and since only few people could afford decent quantities of one kind of meat (especially beef), we became creative mixing them.
The other reason is that if you mix meats, for example, in ragu or meatballs (polpette), they become tastier.
Romy
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Thanks for the info. I agree tastier. My grandma puts meatballs and pepperoni chunks in her rigatoni. Same with Lasagna - none of those fancy vegetables in it!
But if you think about it, probably lots of cultures were too poor for meat at all, or all one kind - and yet - Italians do it biggest and best.
EXPLAIN THAT, FRANCESCA!!!
Also - Sugar reminded me of another super delish soup that I just tried for the first time a year or so ago - Thai seafood soup. It's so spicy in a really good way. I don't like oysters or shrimp much, but the scallops are great. I just take those other things out and leave the veggies and scallops - oh, the broth is to die for! DIE! it's kind of expensive though. For me, maybe not for a normal person.