A hearty Italian-American seafood stew made with tomatoes, wine, and various fish and shellfish.
From Italian 'ciuppin,' a Genoese seafood soup. The word may derive from Italian 'chip-in' referring to fishermen contributing whatever catch they had to make a communal soup.
Cioppino is San Francisco's signature dish, created by Italian immigrants in the 1800s—the word itself is debated, but the 'chip in' origin is poetic because it literally describes what fishermen did, pooling their catch together.
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