Around the World in 30 Soups

A rich, creamy Jamaican stew from Michelle Rousseau and Suzanne Rousseau, authors of Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking.

Around the World in 30 Soups: This month we’re collaborating with chefs, cookbook authors, and our own Kitchn crew to share a globetrotting adventure in soups from countries and cuisines around the world. Today’s stop: Jamaica. Here Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau, sisters and authors of the gorgeous Caribbean cookbook, Provisions, share their take on pinda stew. The creamy vegetarian-friendly dish centers around peanuts, which grow abundantly on the island.

This classic Cuban soup is inexpensive, hearty, and guaranteed to warm you up.

A rich red soup with roots in Aztec heritage. A recipe (and mini history lesson!) from Gonzalo Guzmán, chef at San Francisco’s Nopalito.

Colombian soup to share, with thanks to friends who shared the recipe.

The soup of childhood memories and an iconic red and white can. Make it tonight with our simple, smart tutorial.

This curry laksa from Ping Coombes, author of Malaysia: Recipes From a Family Kitchen, starts with a very good spice paste.

An ingenious recipe from Andrea Nguyen that uses a pressure cooker for maximum flavor in minimum time.

An essential slurpy soup from Taiwan from author Cathy Erway.

Marvin Gapultos, author of The Adobo Road Cookbook, shares his own take on the Filipino sour soup that speaks of comfort to so many Filipinos.

Rejina Pyo and Jordan Bourke offer up this dumpling soup as a classic Korean pick, eaten on the Lunar New Year.

As much as I love to simmer a stockpot of beef pho for hours, it's incredibly liberating to make a pretty good version in much less time.

Michelle Peters-Jones shares the dal recipe she is passing on to her own kids.

As Sonoko Sakai explains, classic miso soup is simple and satisfying on its own— but that doesn’t mean you can’t customize it.

A soup with rich meaning for our editor Christine in her own Chinese family heritage.

Nargisse Benkabbou, author of Casablanca: My Moroccan Food draws on her childhood in Tangier with this seafood soup.

Evi Aki of Ev’s Eats and author of Flavors of Africa shares this velvety coconut soup.

Jeremy and Jessica Nolen, authors of New German Cooking, tie together the German soup traditions we crave the most: beer, cheese, and bread. All in one bowl!

Ferran Adrià's very own gazpacho. But don’t worry; no molecular gastronomy is involved.

Bonnie Frumkin Morales schools us on the fine art of borsch (hold the “t”!).

Steffi Knowles-Dellner offers up a soup from her grandmother that shows off how rich with spices Swedish cooking can be.

It's a comforting, warming soup that reflects Portugal's historical character: simple, honest, and connected to the earth.

David Leite, author of a marvelous book about the Portuguese food of his family, shares the official unofficial soup of Portugal.

A Tuscan classic from television star and cookbook author Giada De Laurentiis.

We turned to Greek cookbook author Aglaia Kremezi to help us really understand and master this delicious classic.