Soups Quotes

22 quotes from 21 authors

From broth to bisque, soups have sparked metaphor and memory alike. This handful of excerpts shows how writers use the humble pot to illustrate comfort, culture, and creativity.

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Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

Elie Wiesel

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“Between soups and love affairs, soups win every time.”

French proverb

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As far as food goes, I enjoy warm dumplings and soups in winters.

Madhura Naik

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I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't…

Lisa Loeb

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My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two…

Ina Garten

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Making a big pan of soup and keeping it in the fridge is a good idea... and it's a whole lot tastier…

Dave Myers

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Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base…

Julia Child

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“It's a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth…

Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

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In its pure crystalline form, MSG can be added to soups, stews, sauces, and stocks to add a rounded, savory flavor.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

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I love the whole process of making, serving, and eating hearty soups like lentil, potato leek and carrot, to name a few.

Alex Guarnaschelli

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Pureed soups kinda suck. By definition, they have one flavor and one texture, a visual blank space where something much more interesting…

Chris Morocco

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I love to make soups. My father used to say, 'There's nothing like a nice bowl of soup.' One of my favorites…

Tony Danza

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For rave-worthy soups, skip the store-bought stock. You can extract a cleaner, stronger broth from a combination of water and several pantry…

Claire Saffitz

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Hearty soups with relatively long cook times like minestrone, for example, are chock-full of aromatics and flavor-lending ingredients like bacon, onions, and…

Claire Saffitz

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People seldom think of soup for summer, so they are unusual - an interesting, unusual touch for the first course or for…

Ruth Glick

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No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs.…

Florence Fabricant

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Some great soups are filling and warm. So, at the four o'clock hour, when people are craving caffeine and a cookie, soup…

Anna Kaiser

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Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never…

Robert Farrar Capon

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“Doug and Jeannette DeLawter enjoy sharing this recipe. It is a delicious light soup that is also easy on the digestive system…

Pamela Compart

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Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes…

Emeril Lagasse

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I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of…

Sophie McShera

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I'm a big fan of soups and stews because you can throw everything in a slow cooker and leave it there for…

Ayesha Curry

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