Crossword-Solution: MINESTRONE 10 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

There is no spinach so good as English, and nowhere is it so badly cooked; it is always coarse and gritty because so little trouble is taken with it, and I can assure you that the smooth, delicate dish which we call Flano di spinacci is not produced merely by boiling and chopping it, and turning it out into a dish." Menu--Lunch Minestrone alla Milanese.

Variation: Chicken Minestrone Add 1 cup chopped stewed tomatoes in their juice and 2 cups cooked, drained fusilli or other pasta and 1/2-cup cooked kidney beans when adding zucchini and potatoes.

Minestrone happens to be one of Frank's favorites, although he skips the cheese because of its cholesterol.

VEGETABLE CHOWDER (_Minestrone alla Milanese_) 1/2 quart of stock 2 slices of lean pork, or a ham bone 2 tomatoes, fresh or canned 1 cup of rice 2 tablespoons of dried beans 1 tablespoon of peas, fresh or canned 2 onions Put into the stock the slices of pork, cut into small pieces; or, if desired, a ham bone may be substituted for the pork.

The _Minestrone_ is an excellent Italian soup (which, by the way, Oddenino of the Imperial in London makes better than I have tasted it anywhere else out of Italy); the veal, I fancy, came from Paris, the _ortolans_ from the far south:-- Melon.