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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 prove
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