January, in addition to being the occasion of the world’s most famous football game, is National Soup Month. Long before there was the Super Bowl, there was the bowl of soup. There is more than a soupcon of evidence that the ancient Greeks (600 B.C.) sold soup as a fast food on the street, using peas, beans and lentils as main ingredients.
"For centuries, soup has been the first resort of a special dinner and the last resort of weary providers with tired vegetables and hungry children," is the introduction (the soup to the main course) of SoupSong.com, a website devoted to one of the world’s most versatile and popular foods. "And it’s more than that. Thackeray has versified on it; Queequeg has rhapsodized about it…" (And Queequeg, furthermore, ended up in it.)
SoupSong has everything from soup to nuts about soup: Cultural notes, recipes, stories about soup, poems about soup, soup jokes (Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?), references to soup in literature, theatrical soup, soup in art, soup in the news, soup etiquette (Which hand do you use to stir soup? –Neither. You should use a spoon.), soup history, soup sayings ("Of soup and love, the first is the best."), soup…well, you get the idea.
Visit www.soupsong.com. Soup’s on!
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