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Origin
Milan, Lombardia
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Description
Milan's winter feast: pork parts (ribs, cotechino, trotters, tail) braised with Savoy cabbage until the collagen dissolves into the braising liquid and the cabbage absorbs the pork fat completely. Eaten on the feast of Sant'Antonio Abate (17 January) when the first frost has sweetened the cabbage. The cassoeula is inseparable from the Lombard winter table — it requires all parts of the pig and a full afternoon of cooking. The word derives from the ladle (cassoeula) used to serve it.
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The Thread
—Pork parts braised with fermented or fresh cabbage — the Alsatian counterpart across the Alps Alsatian
—Long-braised pork and cabbage stew — the Central European parallel to cassoeula Polish
—Multiple pork cuts braised with Savoy cabbage in the French charcuterie tradition French · (Lyon)
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Flavour Context
Silky pork fat absorbed by sweet frost-bitten Savoy cabbage, thickened by collagen from trotters and tail — January Milanese comfort food that requires all afternoon and rewards with something profound
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