A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.
Ask any deer camp old-timer for a foolproof recipe, and you're likely to encounter a lot of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. There is a reason for that: Mushrooms plus cream plus game meat adds up to a perfect trinity of flavors.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.
Miso makes a soup loaded with flavour that saves you the hassle of making stock.
What's a soup kitchen?
I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.
I'm a mushroom freak. I make a mushroom soup where I use maybe six or seven varieties, not just portobello and shiitake, but dried porcini and morels.
That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium. One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles.
Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds.
For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors.
Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed.
I really dislike soup, especially pumpkin soup.
I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
I've never offered coupons or deals. I'm not fancy enough to do soup or salads, hot breakfasts, or smoothies.
A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
