Soupbox is, quite simply, soup lover’s heaven. I stopped by the Chicago Street location on Friday afternoon – located on the bustling corridor between Wabash and Michigan, right by the Chicago red line stop; it’s conveniently placed for anyone working …
This weekend I had the honor to participate in Prospect Farm’s Soup Cook-Off – a communal cooking event/fundraiser for a new volunteer-run farm in Windsor Terrace. Once an open plot of land, the area has been transformed into a fully …
This recipe is much like my other soup recipes, adaptable and hard to get wrong. It is an adaptation of a curried cauliflower soup given to me by a cousin back in the 70’s. (Oh yes, I have been around …
As the climate continues to go wacky, it’s hard to know what November will bring. Even so, it’s likely too late to have a meal on the terrace at Upstairs on the Square. Luckily, the rooms inside provide plenty of …
New England fall. Cool, dry, crisp air. Sapphire skies. Trees on fire with color. No better weather to be active outside. Nothing better than coming home hungry to a steaming bowl of hearty, flavorful comfort. And, wow, Hurricane’s Maine Shrimp …
This soup I brought back with me from Bali. There, where it is hot and steamy all the time, they eat fragrant, hot and steamy foods to cleanse and refresh the body. It has amazing powers of restoration. It contains …
There’s this guy who makes soup. He drives a soup-mobile. He is a proper chef who selects yummy, fresh ingredients from local sources, brings them to his kitchen and uses the science and magic of cookery to create 100% gluten …
Entering Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s new restaurant, Market, in the swanky W Hotel, on a crisply sunny October noon, is like walking into a Mondrian painting in warm browns, grays, golds, and black. Soaring windows screened by gridded ochre curtains cast dappled …
“One of the first soups I made on the site was a butternut squash and carrot puree, which was also one of the only four soups I really knew how to make prior to Soupy. To celebrate this special occasion, …