More than one hundred delectable and satisfying soup and bread pairings from beloved James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas When eating out, Beatrice Ojakangas's mother told her, you could never go wrong ordering soup. And then, of course, there should be bread to go with it. Beatrice has been sampling soup ever since, and in The Soup and Bread Cookbook the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer takes us along on her "soup travels," giving us delicious tastes from throughout the world and teaching us how to make them at home. International yet rooted in the rhythm of the Minnesota seasons-ranging from the cool, refreshing soups of summer to hearty winter fare-these soups, stews, and chowders take their inspiration from farmers' markets and local organic grocery stores: real ingredients, always, and irresistible flavors. Whether it's a basic broth or stock or a long-simmering vegetable-filled stew, there is a bread to go along-enough to fill a cookbook on their own, in fact. Here we have new potato spring pea soup together with chive-dill batter bread, or spicy mango melon soup with lemon poppy seed muffins, or super-simple salmon chowder with sour rye buns, or good old chicken and dumpling soup with Dutch raisin bread-or perhaps your craving is satisfied with Asian lemon-ginger soup with sesame sunflower breadsticks, or Avgolemono soup with pita bread, or Polish Easter soup with sourdough rye, or Brie and apple soup with fougasse. Whatever your palate desires, The Soup and Bread Cookbook will, as The Splendid Table suggests, "banish the Campbell's from your cupboard forever." Pull up a chair. Open the book. Soup's on!

A simple bowl of soup can be the most comforting meal. With these 60 nourishing recipes, there's something for every season and every appetite. All of them have an emphasis on well-being, with nutritious ingredients that include healthy whole grains, pulses, and fresh produce, and every one is packed full of wholesome flavour from herbs and spices and creatively healthy toppings. There are a number of dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan options, too.

The book begins with basic stocks, tasty toppings, and tips for simple soup making. Then each of the 60 main recipes is photographed and includes Wild Mixed Mixed Mushroom Broth with Pearled Spelt and Tarragon; Prawn, Pernod and Pink Peppercorn Broth with Asian Greens; and Venison Soup with Beluga Lentils and Cherries.

Soup is the ultimate in healthy eating. Studies have shown that food, when blended with water, performs a remarkable nutritional trick: it remains in your stomach for longer, allowing the absorption of maximum nutrients while at the same time keeping you feeling full.In Just Soup, Henrietta Clancy shares the secrets of some of the world's best soups, from punchy Asian broths to the slow-cooked comfort foods of our childhood. Her delicious recipes are based on centuries of nutritional wisdom, and show that soup, so often overlooked as a starter or side dish, can take pride of place as the main meal.This book will quite simply change the way you eat.

Much more than a collection of remarkable soups, Mona Talbott's "Zuppe" is also a wise and gentle tutorial on the "the beauty and delicious rewards of frugality" and how the humblest foods can be the most profoundly satisfying. In addition to 50 recipes, Talbott shares approaches and techniques that can change the way a cook thinks about economy, improvisation, and using all the flavors and nutrients inherent in each ingredient.
A Chez Panisse graduate, Talbott was chosen by Alice Waters to be Executive Chef of the innovative Rome Sustainable Food Project at the American Academy in Rome. There, while cooking for the Academy's creative community of scholars, historians, artists, archaeologists, and architects, Talbott perfected a repertoire of dishes made from local, seasonal, organic ingredients. Central to the menu are soups.
Inspired by the traditions of cucina povera, the so-called "cuisine of the poor" that has been the source of so many brilliant Italian dishes, Talbott's recipes waste nothing, employ the concept of arrangiarsi ("making do"), and skillfully transform leftovers. And, in another nod to the wisdom and economy of traditional kitchens, she also points out which soups can easily be made into one-dish meals with the addition of a single ingredient such as a poached egg, a piece of grilled toast, or even clams.
Organized seasonally, "Zuppe" also serves as a practical guide to using the bounty of farmers markets throughout the year.

Through recipes that use traditional medicinal ingredients, "A Tradition of Soup" provides a narrative of the Southern Chinese immigrants who migrated in large numbers during the last half-century, the struggles they faced and overcame, and the soups they used to heal and nourish their bodies. Author Teresa Chen, PhD, who was born into a Cantonese family that valued the many traditions of its regional cuisine, weaves in colourful threads of Chinese culture including food, medicine, festivals, pottery, language, and geography. She covers soup tradition, terminology, techniques, and utensils, and presents close to 150 delicious recipes.Consistent with the Chinese approach to health, Chen groups her soup recipes according to seasons and health concerns and presents a range of soup categories from Cantonese taxonomy: tong (simple broths, soups, and stews), geng (thickened soups), juk (rice soups or porridges), and Tongshui (sweet soups), as well as noodle soups, wonton and dumpling soups, and vegetable soups. She also focuses on dahn (steaming) and louhfo (slow-cooking) soups associated with medicine and healing. Chen's recipes feature fresh, natural, and seasonal food for nurturing and her ingredients are selected to balance a person's physical constitution, be it cold or hot or leaning toward dampness or sluggishness. This conscious integration of medicine and food is especially prominent in the preparation of soups, which can be looked upon as a palatable version of herbal tea.While the recipes in "A Tradition of Soup" call for ingredients that may seem foreign to Western readers, most of them are available in Chinese grocery stores. To help readers identify and procure these items, Chen provides a beautifully photographed ingredients glossary complete with Chinese names, pronunciation and detailed descriptions.

Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: "Momma." The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans-all had a hand in the pot. What is it about gumbo that continues to delight and nourish so many? And what explains its spread around the world? A seasoned journalist, Ken Wells sleuths out the answers. His obsession goes back to his childhood in the Cajun bastion of Bayou Black, where his French-speaking mother's gumbo often began with a chicken chased down in the yard. Back then, gumbo was a humble soup little known beyond the boundaries of Louisiana. So when a homesick young Ken, at college in Missouri, realized there wasn't a restaurant that could satisfy his gumbo cravings, he called his momma for the recipe. That phone-taught gumbo was a disaster. The second, cooked at his mother's side, fueled a lifelong quest to explore gumbo's roots and mysteries. In Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou, Wells does just that. He spends time with octogenarian chefs who turn the lowly coot into gourmet gumbo; joins a team at a highly competitive gumbo contest; visits a factory that churns out gumbo by the ton; observes the gumbo-making rituals of an iconic New Orleans restaurant where high-end Creole cooking and Cajun cuisine first merged. Gumbo Life, rendered in Wells' affable prose, makes clear that gumbo is more than simply a delicious dish: it's an attitude, a way of seeing the world. For all who read its pages, this is a tasty culinary memoir-to be enjoyed and shared like a simmering pot of gumbo.