500 Soups: The Only Soup Compendium You'll Ever Need

by Susannah Blake

This compendium is crammed with 500 mouthwatering soups and packed with inspirational ideas for every kind of soup, broth, bisque, chowder, potage, and consomme. Every page is filled with ideas and tips to ensure success. 500 Soups contains an irresistible collection of soups, broths, bisques, and chowders from sophisticated, chilled soups for summer and healthy soups for the body-conscious to hearty, warming feasts, smooth and creamy indulgences, and hot and fiery soups for the brave. With fabulous soups for every occasion, take your pick from cool and chilled, smooth and creamy, healthy and wholesome, meals in a bowl or soups that you can whip up in 20 minutes or less. With more than 500 recipes split into ten easy-to-use chapters, you are sure to find the perfect recipe whether it is for a laid-back lunch with friends and family, a soothing restorative, the ultimate in comfort food, a sophisticated starter, or just a simple supper.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Food, Cooking, Reference

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 1 out of 5]

A compendium of a bunch of bog-standard soups you can find all over the internet, with a sprinkling of soups no one would ever make ever (unless maybe once if they're some weird inveterate foodie).

I was wondering how they'd fit 500 soups into 288 pages, when the recipes go "1 page soup, 1 page photo"... this is how:
"Variation: Crumble a handful of potato chips on top and serve.
Variation: Substitute white wine for the vermouth."
...Etcetera. Boo, hiss.

#3 in my read-through-the-bookshelf challenge.

[emyrose8 · Rating 4 out of 5]

A surprisingly useful cookbook. There were quite a few I want to try. Each recipe has a photo and basic instructions (the order to add ingredients, how long to cook each step). There aren’t actually 500 recipes... there are a lot! But some of the 500 are simple variations of previous recipes. I don’t mind though. This cookbook gives plenty of ideas of what to make for supper!

[Thibodeaux · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love soup. Summer, winter, hot soup, cold soup, I love all the soup and this book provides it all!

[Lorraine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Looking forward to trying some of these recipes especially the hot, both warm and spicy, soups during this miserable winter. Some of the chilled ones, I will try this summer. I shall be leaving out the garlic as it does not agree with me. Hope it does not change the overall taste too much, but I have no choice. Of course, all of the previous stated info depends on when the kitchen people give me back my kitchen - the 14 of February began month # 9 ! Absolutely unbelieveable !!

[Putri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bought it in Times when I transited in singapore for hours, the shop assistant recommended me this book, this book gives you the idea for dinner/entre and most of the soups are easy and quick to cook.

[Dianna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has a huge variety of soups, and there are several that I'd like to make. I've tried one so far that was very good.

[Carly Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of unique soups. Easy recipes. Great photos.

[Rea]

Includes a recipe for Hungarian sour cherry soup. Not as good as the soup you get in Hungary, but still one that I make over and over.

[Clarice · Rating 4 out of 5]

would have been 5 stars if included italian wedding soup.