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While it is true that Italian cooking is essentially vegetable-based, stemming from the cucina paesana (peasant cuisine) or cucina di povera (cooking of the poor), most Italians cannot imagine why you would not eat meat or fish (particularly a bit of prosciutto [unsmoked ham], anchovies, or chicken broth as flavoring), and to do without cheese and eggs seems to them beyond reason. Read the first page
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