“Stewed beans with chiles and a really crusty, delicious ciabatta — that’s the essence of country Italian cooking,” Zepeda ...

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Tomatoes, for example, are core to Italian cooking, but originated in the Americas, as Zepeda points out. Beans, essential to both cuisines, are also believed to have originated in the Americas.