Soups Archives

Zuppa dei valdesi (Piedmontese Bread Soup)

11 March 2011

A reader who I’ll call “Nancy T.” wrote me recently to tell me about a bread soup dish called zuppa […]

15 December 2010

What to do with a spare ham bone if, like me, you don’t care too much for split pea soup?

28 November 2010

‘Tis the season for soups! When the temperatures dive, there is simply nothing that takes the chill off like soup.

21 November 2010

We’ve already gone over the basic recipe for minestrone on this blog. Once you’ve mastered that, it is a lot

10 November 2010

Here’s a quick and easy weeknight supper for you, Tuscan White Bean Soup: a purée of cannellini beans, seasoned with garlic

29 May 2010

Italy, being a rather slender peninsula, is a country where the sea is rarely too far away. And, of course,

28 February 2010

With the increased interest in vegetarian and vegan diets in recent times, you will find more and more recipes calling

26 December 2009

Who doesn’t love winter squash soup? It is savory yet sweet, warming yet light. It makes a wonderful first course,

3 November 2009

Here’s a quick and easy dish, typical of the Campania region of Italy, that is a cold weather weeknight staple