What does it take to make a great pot of soup?…
I love soup! I could eat it every day. Even in the dog days of a Sarasota summer. I’m not talking about the canned Campbell’s variety. There is a place for that too, but it’s not here. I’m referring to the homemade, or at least restaurant-made, style.
Being originally from the Midwest, Chicago specifically, you develop that fondness for a warming bowl of whatever pretty early in life. Or at least I did. My mom, who really didn’t enjoy cooking all that much, made a delicious chicken soup. It wasn’t until years later, after trying and failing so many times to reproduce it, that I was let in on the secret.
Back in the 60s, we didn’t have Le Creuset in our kitchen. My mom used an old aluminum soup pot to make her soup. I know now that it was probably leeching chemicals of some kind (and other unknown and unhealthful things into) whatever was cooked in it. But back then, that wasn’t on people’s radar. I know it wasn’t on mine, and I’m just guessing it wasn’t on my mom’s…
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