When it gets properly hot here, the kind of humid July we are having right now, I stop turning on...
Read moreDetailsBy the time August rolls around, I am fully done turning on the stove for anything that takes longer than...
Read moreDetailsHarira is the soup that breaks the fast every night during Ramadan across Morocco, and once you make it at...
Read moreDetailsIf you have ever wandered through an Azorean-American community anywhere from Fall River to San Jose between May and September,...
Read moreDetailsThis is the soup with the story, and in this house the story is half the reason we make it....
Read moreDetailsSopa de tomate alentejana is summer in the Alentejo made edible: ripe tomatoes melted down with onion, garlic and bay...
Read moreDetailsIf Portugal had to choose one soup to represent it before the world, caldo verde would win unopposed: silky potato...
Read moreDetailsAçorda alentejana is the mother of all Portuguese bread soups — and the humblest, most brilliant dish the Alentejo ever...
Read moreDetailsThis is the soup-style açorda alentejana — the brothier, lighter cousin of the thick bread stew (my skillet version is...
Read moreDetailsPoland takes mushrooms seriously — foraging is practically a national sport — and zupa grzybowa, the traditional mushroom soup, is...
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