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Now that there's an international melting pot of visitors to my site, it started me thinking about soup. (You know, the phrase 'melting pot' and everything.) Or maybe it was just that I was hungry and had a few hours to bubble up some stock while I mulled over some writing. So how about an international perspective on soup?
As far as I can see, making soup is just a question of throwing loads of leftovers into a pot and boiling it up with some water until the smell fills the house. Then I usually think up a catchy name for my soup (yesterday it was 'Duck Soup' - I said catchy, not original).
Am I missing something?
This method doesn't seem to enable me to make the sort of soup that I've been served in restaurants, but it makes some tasty and warming broths.
Also, I haven't yet been able to reproduce the two soups I grew up with - my Dad's onion soup and my Mum's (what else?) chicken soup.
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I understand the significance of chicken soup and mom but what does onion soup and dad signify? Something to ponder.
I am thinking of this: chicken stock-chicken-onion-celery-mushroom-barley.
Interesting - in this neck of the woods we go for carrot and occasionally celery, but never mushroom.
And the onion soup? I'm not sure what that means. Maybe there should be an alternative cultural history in which there is great significance to the father figure cooking onion soup. Perhaps somewhere in the universe that culture exists. Perhaps Woody Allen has been there...
I like Woody Allen as a filmaker, esp his earlier films, but as a person blech! I have to think your dad isnt anything like that. I hope anyway
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