Soup recipes to get you cozy this winter season!
It’s been a stretch with our warm weather recently but it finally feels like Fall. This is my favorite time of year when soups reign.
The history of soup is as old as the history of cooking. It is a universal comfort food found in all cuisines and cultures. Soup provides basic sustenance as well as being the centerpiece for celebrations and festivals. Soups are also easy food – – both to make and to eat and require very little equipment. They can be a snack, the opener for the meal, the main course or be the entire meal including breakfast.
Soup helps to feed a crowd, is nutritious and, the conventional wisdom is that they provide a cure-all for defeating flu, a cold or when nursing a hangover (that’s your problem, however). The modern restaurant industry is said to be based on soup. Restoratifs as they were called gave rise to the word “restaurant” and were the first items served in public restaurants in 18th century Paris, the birthplace of restaurants.
Every language it seems has a word or two for soup: Sopa in Spanish, Soupe and Potage in French, Soppa in Swedish, Anraith in Irish, Isobho in Zulu, Su’p in Vietnamese and more.
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Chef John Ash 
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