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The Perfection of Simplicity: Potato Leek Soup

Two ingredients. That's it. Well, if you want to be a stickler and count salt and pepper and a touch of olive oil, it's five. OK, and water makes six. But the oil method is optional, so we're back t...

Soup of the Day: Curried Sweet Potato Shooters

Sweet potato soup is a great way to start a meal. It fills you up, and its sweet warmth complements many winter dishes. We love these little soup shooters from Domino; we'd love a shot of this right n...

Survey: How Do You Puree Soups?

Many of our favorite soups are pureed -- blended into smooth, silky creaminess with a blender or food processor. We have to admit that pureeing soups is one of our least favorite parts of soup-making,...

Soup of the Day: French Red Onion Soup

We went looking for the very best Valentine's Day soup, and here you have it. A classic: French onion soup. Why? Well, we think that French onion soup may just be the sexiest soup we know. ...

Flickr Find: Korean Soup Pots

Like Sara Kate said in a recent Kitchn email, soup is universal. It's an essential element of nearly every world cuisine, and we love learning more about how people eat soup in their own culture. Here...

Gallery: Fresh and Beautiful Soup Tureens

How do you serve your soup? Do you ladle it out into soup plates in the kitchen? Do you bring your big stockpot to the table? Or do you have an elegant soup tureen? Soup tureens always seemed very gen...

Soup of the Day: Chicken Soup, Four Ways

Soup is endlessly versatile, and we really like recipes that showcase flexibility and improvisation. So here's a great soup from Food & Wine, except it's not just one recipe. It's four! ...

Wine and Soup: Easy Pairing Tips

February is Soup Month at The Kitchn, so I thought that I would look at some great soup and wine combinations. Traditionally, soup has been considered a difficult course to pair with wine. The reason ...

Soup of the Day: Coconut Chicken Curry Soup

Here's a yummy spicy soup tonight from one of our readers, Katerina of Good Life Eats. It has so many things we love in soup: rice, chilies, lime, and coconut. ...

What's the Secret to Good Matzo Ball Soup?

Even though the thermometer is nearing 60 degrees today in New York, we are still talking soup. And this is one of our favorites, albeit one we've never made ourselves. That's why we need your tips......

Quick Tip: Use Tea Balls To Flavor Soup

Do you use a bouquet garni to flavor your soups? If so, try tucking them into a tea ball instead of cheesecloth. ...

How To Make Soup from Almost Anything

Soup - it's the easiest way to warm up your kitchen on a cold day, and to feed yourself and your family in one delicious and healthy bowl. We realized this weekend that some of our favorite vegan and ...

Soup of the Day: Creamy Garlic (Knoblauchcremesuppe)

Knoblauchcremesuppe! Say that eight times fast. It's actually a very simple thing, and it's quite deserving of our soup of the day. Creamy garlic soup, an Austrian favorite. ...

Soup of the Day: Tomato With Toasted Cheese Croutons

Here's one last mouthwatering soup to round out the first week of Soup Month. Because, after all, where would we be without tomato soup? ...

Soup of the Day: Mexican Zucchini Soup

We gave you a recipe for zucchini soup earlier this week, and now here's another that illustrates just how different two soups made from similar ingredients can be. Ours was creamy; this one is chunky...

How to Serve Soup at a Dinner Party

Yes, you can. Soup is a great thing to serve at a dinner party, and we're not just talking soup shots as cute appetizers. We're going main course here. It can be an impressive meal that's fully satisf...

Tip: Use Yogurt for a Creamy Soup

Those are the ingredients for Sara Kate's Fridge-Clearing Avocado Soup. Maybe not the most seasonal group of ingredients in the middle of February, but it exhibits a very good (and healthy) idea for m...

National Food Roundup: Coconut Cheesecake
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 02.04.09

Why not forgo chocolate this Valentines Day in favor of coconut treats? We're crushing on recipes for coconut cheesecake and more. ...

Soup of the Day: East African Groundnut

Peanut butter in soup? Really? Why yes, and it's delicious! ...

Soup Inspiration: The Hale and Hearty Menu
New York

We're big proponents of bringing your lunch to work; it's almost always cheaper and healthier. But when we don't, we frequently visit Hale and Hearty. We usually come away with soup plus some recipe i...

Good Quote: Sam Kass on Soup and Social Change

Chicago chef Sam Kass has been tapped by the Obamas to serve under Cristeta Comerford in the White House kitchen. Something of a community organizer himself, Kass recently spearheaded a series of even...

Soup of the Day: Black Bean with Bacon and Mushrooms

Black bean soup is one of those things that we might just focus on all month long, if we didn't have other people to please. Black bean soup, after all, is one of the most highly adaptable soups there...

Recipe: Vegetarian Posole

Remember the Super Bowl taco bar we told you about last week? Well, ours was a big success, and we now have a fridge full of leftover taco toppings. Perfect for a quick batch of posole, vegetarian sty...

Soup of the Day: Southeast Asian Beef and Rice Noodle

It's Soup Month! We'll be bringing you all sorts of soups this month: vegan, vegetarian, carnivorous, grain-heavy, vegetable-thick, and broths that are clear and light. But the first one we wanted to ...

Recipe Recommendation: Spicy Parsnip Soup

Yesterday, we talked about experimenting with spices and winter vegetables. Today, we've found a recipe that does exactly that. It's a spicy parsnip soup from a blog that's all about, well, spice! ...