Despite the name, this isn't actual wedding soup — "maritata" means the meat and bitter greens are "married" in the broth. A Christmas Eve and Easter staple in Campania. Long-simmered meat broth, escarole, sausages, salami.
The most authentic cucina povera dish you'll ever eat — stale bread, tomato, oil, oregano, salted water. That's it. Pugliese and Lucanian farmers' lunch in the fields. Sounds insanely simple; it's transcendent.
A heritage soup from the Apennines — chickpeas and chestnuts, an unexpected pairing that becomes inevitable once you taste it. Earthy, slightly sweet, intensely warming. Eaten through autumn and winter.