Hoppin’ John

Hoppin’ John

I grew up in the “South,” by which I mean Florida. It wasn’t until I married Garth, who somehow grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, that I learned of this tradition of eating Hoppin’ John over rice on New Years’ Day to bring you luck in the coming year. Basically,...
Greek Soup Mashup

Greek Soup Mashup

This soup is a fantasy blend of three classic Greek soups— avgolemono, fasolada and tahinosoupa— to create a kind of Greek soup unicorn. It would probably offend someone somewhere, but I don’t care because it’s totally delicious and full of things I like to eat. I...
Fennel Farinata

Fennel Farinata

A bowl of farinata is one of those cold-weather comfort staples that I look forward to every year, like wrapping myself in a down jacket or wool socks. Farinata is a porridge-style soup in which polenta is whisked into simmering broth, a revelation to chilly eaters...
Chunky Garden Vegetable Stew

Chunky Garden Vegetable Stew

When I was growing up, we ate canned soup sometimes—something I honestly can’t imagine ever doing today unless a threat of death was involved. Nonetheless, it was an occasional tool my dad relied on to keep our family fed. I remember savoring the sort that came from a...
Ethiopian Lentil Soup

Ethiopian Lentil Soup

There are a lot of cultures that take the simplest ingredients – here, lentils – and add a few signature twists that make them special. The signature twists in Ethiopian cuisine, which is always based on humble ingredients, are the warmly spiced clarified butter...
Thanksgiving Soup

Thanksgiving Soup

This was a new soup two years ago when I developed the recipes for the cookbook; it’s such an obvious one in my estimation. (I can’t believe it only occurred to me the second year of soup club!) Basically, it’s all of my favorite festive flavors crammed into one big...