In Soup, Spice Bags tackles another installment of “Staples” – where we three discuss a food from each of our cultural perspectives. In this episode, we talk soup, because baby, it’s cold outside. Soup, for us, is fundamental, and yet, as we discover, plays a different role in our lives. Why do the Spanish drink their gazpacho from a glass?  Why do the Chinese hate blended soups? What is the Jewish-American legacy of “chicken soup?” Why does Mei pack cans of Campbells in her luggage when she goes to the US, why does Blanca find it weird to make a meal of a soup, and how is Dee’s father the master of the Knorr packet?  From consommé to chowder and congee, we take some stock.

P.S. We mention the sexiest soup scene in cinema history.

 

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Links

 The movie “Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios” (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095675/

 

Gazpacho scene

https://bit.ly/38ZrUaL

 

A Celebration of Soup

Lindsey Bareham

http://www.lindseybareham.com/books/

 

Recipe for Spartan black soup

https://momsrecipes.web.app/3482-recipe-of-quick-black-soup/

 

Stone Soup (apparently, there’s an Irish version as well, that WB Yeats adapted)

https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1548.html

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