Dewey Decimal641.8/13
SynopsisThroughout history and around the world, soup has been used to bring comfort, warmth, and good health. A bowl of soup can symbolize so much--celebrations, major life passages, and the everyday. Inspired by Patricia Solley's website, SoupSong.com, and organized according to function--soups to heal the sick, recover from childbirth, soothe a hangover, entice the object of your affection, and mark special occasions and holidays-- An Exaltation of Soups showcases more than a hundred of the best soup recipes of all time, including: - Festive Wedding Soup with Meatballs from Italy - Egyptian Fava Bean Soup, made to give strength to convalescents - Creamy Fennel Soup with Shallots and Orange Spice from Catalonia--perfect for wooing a lover - Hungarian "Night Owl" Soup, designed to chase a hangover - Spicy Pumpkin and Split Pea Soup from Morocco, served to celebrate Rosh Hashanah - Tanzanian Creamy Coconut-Banana Soup for Kwanzaa Spiced with soup riddles, soup proverbs, soup poetry, and informative sidebars about the lore and legends of soup through the ages, An Exaltation of Soups is a steaming bowl of goodness that is sure to satisfy., Throughout history and around the world, soup has been used to bring comfort, warmth, and good health. A bowl of soup can symbolize so much--celebrations, major life passages, and the everyday. Inspired by Patricia Solley's website, SoupSong.com, and organized according to function--soups to heal the sick, recover from childbirth, soothe a hangover, entice the object of your affection, and mark special occasions and holidays-- An Exaltation of Soups showcases more than a hundred of the best soup recipes of all time, including: * Festive Wedding Soup with Meatballs from Italy * Egyptian Fava Bean Soup, made to give strength to convalescents * Creamy Fennel Soup with Shallots and Orange Spice from Catalonia--perfect for wooing a lover * Hungarian "Night Owl" Soup, designed to chase a hangover * Spicy Pumpkin and Split Pea Soup from Morocco, served to celebrate Rosh Hashanah * Tanzanian Creamy Coconut-Banana Soup for Kwanzaa Spiced with soup riddles, soup proverbs, soup poetry, and informative sidebars about the lore and legends of soup through the ages, An Exaltation of Soups is a steaming bowl of goodness that is sure to satisfy.