On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:04:14 GMT, notbob > wrote:


>All the rest, with two exceptions looks good, that being rice and pesto.
>Rice!? WTF!!?? I've never eaten a minestrone with rice in my entire life.
>Even in some of the classic Italian places in Little Italy in San Francisco.
>Apperently, ol' Chris is having some sort of brain aneurysm. Same goes for
>the pesto. Minestrone does not include pesto, ferchrynoutloud. Leave it up
>to CI to eff up an iron ball. I would expect nothing less.
>
>nb

From the reading I have been doing, from various Italian experts, rice
is occasionally used. Pasta seems to be more common, but rice is
considered a part of some minestrones.

And pesto is a part of a Genovese Minestrone. This is from quite a
few Italian books...and experts.

Christine