Stirring the Soup

Asking me to name my favorite soup is like demanding someone to pick a meal they’d want to eat for the rest of their life. It’s nearly…

We call it French onion soup, but the French just call it onion soup. Maybe there are some secret French onions that make this soup so…

Imagine this: You’re at home on a gorgeous Sunday evening. The air is a bit brisk outside and a fire is crackling while you rest on the…

You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is look outside the window and expect the sun to burst through the glass. But…

What is soup. What makes a liquid worthy of holding the name soup. Does the liquid have to be hot? Contain some sort of solid? The…

Minestrone soup on a Thursday afternoon. My mom is sitting across from me and my sister is dancing across the street. Every week for the…

I’m not entirely sure about residents outside of the states of Maryland and Maine, but in those respective states, cream of crab soup is…

Being what my mom likes to describe as a “poor and starving college student,” fancy meals are few and far between and soup, whether made in…

I love Zuppa Toscana — the ultimate “Italian-style” knock-off soup from the Americanized, yet delicious, Olive Garden. I call Zuppa Toscana…

Soup is rarely on the menu for Austen Browne. I don’t know whether it’s the broth, either scorching like lava to the touch or ice cold, or…

There is no soup that beats chicken tortilla soup. The ingredients in it range from good to great, but the constants are the incredible…

After a two-hour drive, the beach was just a sideshow. The main event was to come after a long wait in line. We had come to eat one thing…

While soup is definitely not one of my favorite foods, if I had to choose something I would say that my favorite soup is clam chowder.

Cream of mushroom soup is my go-to remedy for heartaches, sadness, and most importantly, hunger.

“When you go to the hahbah, ya gotta get the chowdah. It’s delish.”

My favorite soup is chicken enchilada soup. The first time I had chicken enchilada soup I was working at the ice cream bar at a restaurant…

Soup…Stew…Broth…You drink it…You eat it with a spoon. Me personally, I’m not a big fan of soup, especially tomato — yuck. I’ve crafted an…

CHUNKY. White. Cubes of potatoes. Green specs of who-knows-what-spice and only-God-knows what herb. Warm. Thick. It slides down my throat…

I sat in the bakery staring at the rest of the soup that I had in my bowl. Three big, chunky pieces of chicken stared back at me ready to…

My favorite soup of all time is miso soup, and here’s why:

My favorite soup is Japanese Udon noodle soup. It is not a American traditional soup, as it has noodles, meats and Asian spices in it, but…

There are different kinds of soups in Nigeria, where I come from. Some go with certain kinds of meals while others can be eaten just like…

God I don’t like soup. I mean what is a soup really? It’s not quite a stew and not quite chili. And it is by far the worst of the meat and…

Let me give you a little bit of background about the history of tomato soup, my favorite soup. According to the Smithsonian archives, at…