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When German forces occupied much of Italy during World War II , elaborate meals became a relic of another era — but ribollita , the humble Tuscan soup of stale bread , cannellini beans , and whatever vegetables remained , quietly endured . Partisan fighters and the civilians who sheltered them reportedly shared the dish in farmhouses and cellars across the countryside , where it was filling , cheap , and easy to prepare in large quantities . Its very ordinariness made it practical , and its practicality made it political . Over time , the soup accumulated a kind of symbolic weight that no general or proclamation had managed to manufacture : it was what resistance actually looked like on a cold evening , ladled into a bowl .
