Tracy wrote:
>sf wrote:
>> What is the difference between pasta e fagioli and minestrone? I
>> bought some premade pasta e fagioli (the soup) from Lunardi's
>> yesterday - hubby said it looked like minestrone to him. There are
>> all sorts of recipes for each on the internet, so they seem to vary by
>> who does the cooking. Are there larger regional differences too?
>>
>>
>For me, pasta e fagioli does not have any tomato product. It's a bean
>and pasta soup. My mother used black eyed peas. I have been unable to
>find a recipe quite like hers and it's too late now to ask her how she
>made it. Our Italian roots are via Naples. I don't know if that makes a
>difference in how it's made....
>
>Tracy

No self respecting Italian would use black eyed peas for anything.
Pasta e fagioli in my experience is not a soup... minestrone is an
Italian vegetable soup that contains beans and pasta but is primarilly
a vegetable soup.

Pastafazoole in Naples would typically contain some seafood:
http://tinyurl.com/oyhcja9
http://www.napoliunplugged.com/cooki...-le-cozze.html