Maremma promises a Tuscany-meets-Texas experience, and delivers: Everything, from the Tuscan tomato soup to gnocchi to the yellowfin tuna, is sublime.

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Well-dressed families converse and enjoy staples such as tomato soup, crab cakes, Caesar salad, chicken salad, "one great burger" and calves' liver with bacon.

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By judicious tweaking of ingredients - for example, substituting normal tomatoes found in cream of tomato soup with their super-nutritious sun-dried counterparts - they were able to develop three new varieties of "super-soups".

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The company has devised around 20 locally tailored menu items in some 14 European countries, including Finland, where it offers the Rye McFeast, a burger served on a rye bun, and Spain, where it offers the tomato-based soup Gazpacho.

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The soup choices will include tomato and mushroom, and three seasonal choices.

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The Mediterranean diet discouraged soda drinks and the low-fat diet discouraged vegetable oils, nuts, fried snacks, visible fat in meats and soup, fatty fish and tomato sauce.

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Canned tomato products can stand in for fresh in soup or chili when good fresh ones aren't in season.

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The menu is primarily contemporary Italian, featuring dishes such as porcini mushroom soup, eggplant parmigiana served in puff pastry, and branzino with celery root puree, tomato, capers and fresh oregano.

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Ms. Villegas Becerril's book, "El Libro del Salmorejo: Historia de un viaje milenario" traces the soup's heritage and its incarnations on the way to Andalusia from the Middle East, before the tomato arrived from the New World sometime around 1500.

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