Soup's on: Sixty Hearty Soups You Can Stand Your Spoon in

by Janet Lembke

A collection of 60 hearty soup recipes includes instructions for preparing Butternut Squash Soup with Pancetta, Sausage and Bean Chowder, Crab Jambalaya, Chicken Noodle Picante, and much more.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Janet Lembke (2 March 1933 - 3 September 2013), née Janet Nutt, was an American author, essayist, naturalist, translator and scholar. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio during the Great Depression, graduated in 1953 from Middlebury College, Vermont, with a degree in Classics, and her knowledge of the classical Greek and Latin worldview, from Homer to Virgil, informed her life and work. A Certified Virginia Master Gardener, she lived in Virginia and North Carolina, drawing inspiration from both locales. She was recognized for her creative view of natural cycles, agriculture and of animals, both domestic and wild, with whom we share the natural environment. Referred to as an "acclaimed Southern naturalist," she was equally (as The Chicago Tribune described her) a "classicist, a noted Oxford University Press translator of the works of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus". She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Virgil's Georgics, having already translated Euripides’ Electra and Hecuba, and Aeschylus’s Persians and Suppliants.

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Reviews

[Mike (the Paladin) · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some of the cook books I have that i picked out...preparation of wild game for example would be one...and this one.

Do you like soup? I do, I usually prefer clear soups based in stocks or broths. My favorite (for now anyway) is a beef soup based in a good beef broth with simply good braised and then cooked beef, tomato, and cabbage. You can make it a hundred (or more) different ways depending on seasoning, broth vs. stock...the way ingredients are cut and prepared, the type of tomato used...etc.

This book has all kinds of other possibilities to try of both thick soup and thin vegetable and meat, on and on. Good one.