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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
A Delightful Mental Trip:
I found this book to be an extraordinary blend of humor, facts not known before, recipes out of the dark ages on up until now, and it is hard to put down once begun. Some of the information on food preparation in other countries is astonishing, and I salute the author on her dedication to assemble all this information into one book. I won't be lending the book out casually - it's too much a treasure for that!
Great cookbook and storybook, too!:
This book is great - it provides interesting stories, history facts, and quips about soup. Great recipes, too!
Soup as History:
AN EXALTATION OF SOUPS:
The Soul-Satisfying Story of Soup, as
Told in More Than 100 Recipes
By: Patricia Solley "Little is nobler than presiding over a kettle of homemade soup."
(Unknown) This is a cookbook you will likely read in most any room in addition to your kitchen -- hearty and stirring tales of 100 soups for more than 40 worldwide occasions ... Solley invites us to "look at a bowl of soup and see the evolution of foods created in remote locations over... more info
Pat Solley knows soup:
Pat does a great job keeping the reader's interest in this fine book. Solley's strong suit has always been her outstanding research abilities & it is clearly evident in her first published book about soups. Check her website www.soupsong.com for even more fun. Even if Pat wasn't my sister, I would still be hugely proud of her efforts!
