Persian Herb and Noodle Soup
All of you probably know this by now, but I was really sick a few years ago. It involved a lot of complicated things I won’t get into right here, but it also involved a lot of healing with soup. Soup materialized everywhere, filling our cooler outside, our...
Gumbo Z’Herbes
A few years ago, I felt inspired by Mardi Gras and wanted to play around with a kind of obscure, green gumbo with origins in Africa. The result was a delicious bowl that reminds me of all the comfort of gumbo with none of the meat. It took me to the French quarter, to...Louisiana Red Bean Soup
This isn’t soup at all, really, but one vegan interpretation of half of the classic Southern dish of red beans and rice. The classic dish has Andouille sausage in it, which I obviously left out. I took a few tricks I played around with in the Hoppin’ John – chipotle...
Nearly Retro Cabbage Soup
Cabbage soup was all the rage in the 1950s. (Funny things were trendy then, like dancing in your socks in public, the jitterbug and pet rocks.) But it’s true – rumor has it that people would eat vats of this stuff in an attempt to fit into their poodle skirts. I...
