An Exaltation of Soups: The Soul-Satisfying Story of Soup, as Told in More Than 100 Recipes

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.

• Author
• Patricia Solley

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 384

• Publisher
• Clarkson Potter Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-4000-5035-2

• EAN
• 9781400050352

• Genres
• cookbooks, food

• Release date
• 2004