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“Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.”
-Auguste Escoffier
January: National Soup Month
Has December's wintery breath clouded the pond, frosted the pane, and obscured summer's memory? Does the frigid winter wind cut like the sharpest bladed knife? Do you wake up sweating, screaming, and outraged at whatever unjust power didn't let you die? If so, you might be interested to know that January is national soup month! Founded in 1986 by Campbell's, National Soup Month is the perfect time to make your favorite soups, try new recipes, and revere what many know to be the kindest of foods.
"Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?" — Judith Martin