cioppino
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cioppino
1935–40; apparently < dialectal Italian
Example Sentences
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The crabs were lifted off the boat and weighed: 855 pounds of fresh crab meat to be transformed into sauteed crab cakes, a Louie salad or thrown into some cioppino.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2025
My fellow Slatesters have also noticed their favorite products disappearing from shelves: lemon pepper seasoning, frozen cioppino seafood stew, frozen yogurt, horseradish potato chips, and more.
From Slate • Jul. 24, 2024
Unfortunately, Sylwia's dish is odd and ill-conceived while Tom's "cioppino salad" is deemed overly ambitious.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2023
And dozens of delicious specialty dishes were created or popularized here: Santa Maria tri tip, the Mission burrito, Los Angeles’s French dip sandwich, the San Francisco fish stew cioppino and San Diego-style rolled tacos.
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023
While the bread bakes, make the cioppino: In a large Dutch oven or wide, heavy pot, add 4 cups of the marinara sauce, plus the clam juice, thyme sprigs and red-pepper flakes.
From Seattle Times • May 8, 2022
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