Talk:Minestrone

message: 67.83.205.131 added a large section here, not sure where it's from, does someone want to contact him and check for copyright violation? It is signed "Contributed by alessandro petti (alexanderpetti@hotmail.com) Aug 2005 Edited by David Mckenzie"
:— Hobart 03:43, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Large Contribution 

message: The article claims that the Roman army is said to have marched on pasta faggioli.  That would certainly be an interesting accomplishment, at least ten centuries before Marco Polo brought noodles to Italy.  If there’s no evidence for that, it should be removed; if it’s a folk saying there should be a citation or a clarification. crism 04:46, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Marco Polo story is a myth, the origin of pasta in Italy isn't known but it predates Marco, it's thought that the Etruscans made pasta for example. 125.209.169.175 (talk) 04:47, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roman pasta? 

message: Removed, following the Roman army reference:
"This seems unlikely as beans originated in the Americas. Beans were not introduced into Europe until many centuries later."
I have no idea what the Roman army marched on, but beans were known in the ancient Mediterranean... at least well enough for the Pythagoreans to make eating them a taboo! The American species isn't the only one around.
24.34.85.32 (talk) 06:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I added the tags, and I've restored them, but I'm happy to talk about it here. Firstly, I disagree with your definition - where does it come from? And who says minestrone able to be vegetarian? I've been told that it has to contain bacon to be minestrone (and pasta as well) - but since I don't have a reference, I couldn't include it in the article. But maybe the bulk of those google hits are not actually using the word correctly. Or maybe there are two definitions of minestrone - a narrow definition and a loose definition. The thing is - we can't know unless we have a credible reference. So it's not common knowledge, nor is it unquestionable. StAnselm (talk) 03:39, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Beans

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thread_title: [[WP:FOOD|WikiProject Food and drink]] Tagging

message: Does anyone else think the history section is a little heavy on information that only indirectly applies to the history of minestrone?  Reading it you would almost think that pulte is a synonym for minestrone (it is not).  A clear (sourced) statement that pulte is the historical antecedent of minestrone is called for.  I removed/abbreviated a few blocks: 1) a long quote from a researcher about Roman aesthetics (it did not pertain to Minestrone); 2) reference to the first Roman bakeries (it is enough to say Romans got bread); 3) a long analogy involving Patella Lucretiana (comparison is not needed, just say minestrone is made from leftovers).
It still needs quite a bit of work to make it more succinct and encyclopedic in style, and many statements are still unreferenced. Richigi (talk) 21:47, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of minestrone