Cioppino

Cioppino — a tomato-and-wine-based seafood stew of Dungeness crab, clams, mussels, shrimp, squid, and firm white fish — is San Francisco's signature dish, created by Italian (primarily Genoese and Sicilian) fishermen at Fisherman's Wharf in the late 19th century. The name likely derives from *ciuppin* (a Genoese fish stew) or from the English "chip in" (each fisherman contributing a portion of the day's catch to the communal pot). The dish is San Francisco's answer to Marseille's bouillabaisse and Lisbon's *caldeirada* — a fisherman's stew made from whatever the boats brought in, extended with tomato and wine into a broth substantial enough to feed a wharf full of workers. · Wet Heat