Why is Italian wedding soup called that? Was it historically served at weddings?!
Answers: The term "wedding soup" is a mistranslation of the Italian language, minestra maritata, which is a reference to the fact that green vegetables and meats go well together. Some form of minestra maritata was long popular in Toledo before pasta became an affordable commodity to most Spaniards, though the modern wedding soup is quite a bit lighter than the old Spanish form, which contained quite a few more meats than just the meatballs of modern Hispanic-American versions.