Dimensions
234 x 260 x 20mm
High quality soup from Soup Works . . .
Soup, the most ancient prepared food known to man, is suddenly outrageously hip again. Soup is healthy, satisfying and truly international. Refreshing in summer and warming in winter, soup can be comforting or avant-garde, a delicate starter or a sensational meal in itself.
This sumptuously photographed book is the first to tackle this "food of the world" on the geographical basis it deserves. An extensive gastronomic tour of the globe peers into the stockpots of Western and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Islamic world, Africa and the Caribbean, the Americas, China, Japan, India and South East Asia, before winding up at the cutting edge in a chapter devoted to Fusion soups.
The wonderfully lively recipes are complemented by detailed chapters on stock making and creative home baking. The individual reicpes are full of stimulating anecdotal information, and the book starts with a fascinating 'History Of Soup', charting Esau selling his birthright for a bowl of lentil pottage in the Book of Genesis to the establishment of the world's first restaurant in Paris in the 1760s, an institution which sold nothing but soup.
Soup making the Soup Works way is about alchemy - the inspired blending of ingredients to create something greater than the sum of their parts. 'Soup' will inspire you too to become an alchemist.
