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Olla podrida is a Spanish stew made from pork and beans and an inconsistant wide variety of other meats and vegetables depending on the recipe used. The meal is traditionally prepared in a clay pot over several hours. It is eaten as a main course; sometimes as a single dish and sometimes with ingrediants seperated - meats from the rest and/or liquids from solids.
Don Quixote
In Don Quixote -- first published in 1605 -- Cervantes has the gluttonous Sancho Panza say these words:
- "This plate that is steaming in front of me appears to me to be olla podrida, because of the diversity of ingredients that there are in some ollas podridas, I won't be able to stop running into some that is to me of taste and benefit..."