Soups | Keith Reeves, Wine Writer

Jerusalem Artichoke Soup

Mar 21, 2024 | Food Writing, Soups, Vegetables

Blackadder: “Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?” Baldrick: “Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out...

Sorrel soup

Sep 29, 2023 | Kitchen Tales, Soups, Vegetables

The leaves ‘sharpened the appetite, strengthened the heart, and gave so great a sharpness to a salad…that it should...

Ribollita

Oct 1, 2021 | Kitchen Tales, Soups, Vegetables

“Soup is cuisine’s kindest course”. Virginia Woolf. Unlike Virginia, I have written elsewhere, and far less...

Borshch [борщ]

Aug 29, 2021 | Kitchen Tales, Pork, Soups, Vegetables

I have a few colleagues who when pressed to provide a short list of culinary dislikes, blandly cite beetroot as one of...

Chicken soup with egg-lemon sauce [Avgolemono]

Apr 11, 2021 | Eggs, Kitchen Tales, Poultry, Soups

Back in the seventies, whilst transitioning between impecunious art student and manqué sculptor, I was pleased to...

Curried Parsnip Soup

Nov 14, 2020 | Kitchen Tales, Soups, Vegetables

“Words are but wind that do from men proceed; None but Chameleons on bare Air can feed; Great men large hopeful...

Zucchini Soup [Soupe aux Courgettes]

Oct 2, 2020 | Kitchen Tales, Soups

“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.” Abraham Maslow. Some are born with a desire for...

Roast Butternut Squash soup with Cinnamon

Sep 6, 2020 | Kitchen Tales, Soups, Vegetables

My relationship with soup began badly. Like many food writers before me I would like to record that my life’s interest...

Pea Soup with Ham and Mint [Sopa de Guisantes]

Aug 16, 2020 | Kitchen Tales, Pork, Soups, Vegetables

“Pease pudding hot, Pease pudding cold, Pease pudding in the pot Nine days old” English nursery rhyme circa: 1790 Pea...

Onion Soup [Soupe à l’oignon]

Jul 28, 2020 | Kitchen Tales, Soups, Vegetables

"The classic soup à l'onion is truly a formidable beast - and you can pronounce that 'formidable' in either French or...

Tom Yang Gung

May 1, 2020 | Kitchen Tales, Soups

“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but not with an empty stomach” Jìt-jai thêe râh-reung bpen yah thêe dee dtàe...

Wild Garlic soup

Apr 21, 2020 | Kitchen Tales, Soups

A recent family visit to Noma, in Copenhagen (voted best restaurant in the world), left me with a comforting degree of...

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