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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: February 2002)

Date	Item
2/28/02 Ottawa Citizen	Rod Epstein reports on a new Canadian film that explores Elvis' possible Jewish roots, showing childhood neighbor Jeanette Fruchter, wife of the rabbi in Memphis, testifying "Elivis always carried a yarmulke in his pocket and loved eating matzoh ball soup"--while the family landlord, Fagie Shaffer, claims "Elvis' mother wanted him to be a doctor, he loved matzoh ball soup, and he had a nose job."
2/28/02 Scripps Howard	Dan K. Thomasson reports that an entire airport concourse was shut down by a suspicious cup of soup that was left behind by a traveler and couldn't be identified.
2/25/02 Liverpool Daily Post	Peter Elson, reporting on historical eccentrics, recalls the time Lord Carnarvon (who discovered King Tut's tomb) became so incensed at a fly in a restaurant that he threw a bowl of soup at it.
2/25/02 Liverpool Daily Post	Steve Bagnoll reports that Welsh school children are preparing to celebrate St. David's Day on March 1st with folk dancing, leek soup, and Welsh cakes.
2/24/02 The Observer	Anthony Browne reports on the horrific trade in apes and monkeys in Britain being sold as "bush meat," noting that West African immigrants there particularly like pepe soup, made of hot chili powder and gorilla meat, which is reputed to make on stronger, more agile and cunning.
2/23/02 New Scientist	Catherine Zandonella reports that a new anti-cavity formulation, made of genetically modified bacteria, might do away with the need for humans ever to brush their teeth. Called BC53-L1, it tastes like chicken soup and can be brushed or squirted onto teeth.
2/21/02 Agence France Presse	Chinese President Jiang Zemin serenaded President Bush with the song "O Sole Mio"--in Italian--at the final state dinner of foie gras soup and cream of Chinese wolfberry and lily soup, among other courses.
2/21/02 Belfast Newsletter	U.S. actress Liza Minelli will be wedding her 4th, producer David Gest, in a huge New York celebrity bash that includes her gift wish list of 4 Elsa Peretti soup tureens valued at $5500 each.
2/20/02 Reuters	Nigerian farm worker Salifu Ojo killed his boss over a pay dispute, dismembered her body, made a traditional pepper soup out of her internal organs, and ate it--only confessing to his fellow workers when he sickened on the soup.
2/18/02 AP Worldstream	Gary Schaefer reports that President and First Lady Bush joined Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the Gonpachi restaurant for yakitori, Kobe steak, and chicken soup.
2/18/02 Ottawa Citizen	Vegetarians at the Olympics are outraged by the beef-laden food, even the vegetable soup at concession stands being made with beef stock.
2/17/02 Montreal Gazette	Dave Stubbs reports from Salt Lake City that the families of U.S. Olympians who eat at AT&T's family hospitality centre will have eaten 840 gallons of soup by the end of the games.
2/17/02 St. Paul Pioneer Press	Joe Soucheray reports that Minnesota state representative Loren Solberg has revealed the identity of the man in Eric Enstrom's famous 1918 photograph "Grace," showing an old man praying over a bowl of soup and loaf of bread. He was peddlar and handyman Charles Widen from Solberg's hometown of Bovey, MN...and Solberg is proposing the picture become the official state photograph.
2/17/02 Sunday Mirror	James Weatherup reports that the ailing Queen Mother--who has been subsisting on soup and ice cream, losing a stone in the process--used her iron resolve to attend daughter Margaret's funeral.
2/16/02 Boston Herald	Paul Pierce claims his Celtics 107-104 victory over the Trail Blazers stemmed from him remembering NOT to eat the clam chowder that had made him ill last year in the same town for a resounding defeat. "No soup for me this year," he said the day before the game, "No soup."
2/16/02 Daily Record	Sexy star Dougray Scott revealed that he ate cabbage soup to shed his beefy hardman image in Mission Impossible 2...so he could star in Enigma with Kate Winslet.
2/14/02 UPI	Marcella reports on a new museum exhibit on chocolate that chronicles Italians first using chocolate in soup in the late 18th century.
2/14/02 New York Times	Ken Belson reports that analysts compare Japan's strategy of slow economic stimulation to a frog in a soup pot: drop the frog in hot water and it will jump right out; put it in tepid water and turn up the heat and it will stay and die.
2/14/02 Associated Press	Sergio Garcia laments at California's Nissan Open, "If Tiger [Woods] were here, it would be the Spice in the soup."
2/13/02 AP Worldstream	Protestors in Helskinki were slurping pea soup in subzero weather, waving windsocks inscribed "The Fifth Mistake," while Finnish legislators debated permission to build a fifth nuclear reactor in the country.
2/13/02 Atlanta Journal	Bob Keefe reports on First Lady Laura Bush commenting on her visit to her daughter's dorm room: "I went to the store and bought a broom...and some cups of soup and oatmeal."
2/13/02 Deutsche Presse-Agentur	Hitler's last personal secretary Traudl Junge died on Monday at age 81 of cancer, but not before recalling in a recent documentary film that Hitler would catch his Austrian cook sneaking animal broth and fat into his vegetarian diet until he finally would only let him cook clear soup and mashed potatoes for his meals.
2/12/02 Lancaster New Era (Pennsylvania), etc.	Christians around the world have started the Lenten season this Ash Wednesday with church soup suppers.
2/12/02 Africa News	Pepper soup "joint" operators in Nigeria say they have been forced to increase their soup prices because the price of their cow heads and cow tails have gone up.
2/12/02 Boston Globe	Joseph P. Kahn reports that literary power couple James Carroll and Alexandra Marshall were feted with mushroom soup, inter alia, on their 25th anniversary by 100 of their literary pals.
2/12/02 The Nation (Thailand)	Chinatown in Bangkok prepared a royal lunar new year feast for Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, including "The Monk Jumped Over the Wall" soup, made of sea cucumber, shark fin, abalone, kanguai, and fried noodles.
2/12/02 Orange County Register	Stephen Lynch reports on Korea celebrating the lunar new year with long rice cakes (for longevity) in soup.
2/12/02 The Age (Melbourne)	For St. Valentine's Day, notes that in the Caribbean, "Mannish water" is used as an aphrodisiac, a soup made of goat's head, garlic, scallions, green bananas, peppers, and white run.
2/10/02 Los Angeles Times	Marjorie Miller reports on embattled Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, who vows over a bowl of vegetable soup to continue his struggle to promote the Palestinian cause.
2/10/02 New York Times	Richard Eder reviews Robert Olen Butler's new book Fair Warning, praising its dated line "mushroom soup is the olive oil of suburbia."
2/9/02 Agence France Presse	G7 policymakers met in Ottawa to discuss the Russian economy and terror-related financing over oxtail soup, which protesters chanted slogans outside on the freezing steps of the Parliament building.
2/9/02 The Daily Telegraph	Charles Spencer reports on dramatist Harold Pinter's sketches performed at the National Theater, singling out the 1959 "Black and White," about 2 semi-derelict women who while away the night over tomato soup in an all-night cafe.
2/8/02 AP Worldstream	Selcan Hacaoglu reports from Sarikamis on Turkish military wartime exercises, where Pvt. Engin Cicek was found cooking soup with yoghurt and oregano in his helmet over a fire.
2/7/02 U.S. Newswire, Washington, DC	Gearing up for St. Valentine's Day, Genanio's in Alexandria will feature a lovers' sharing menu that includes Creamed Soup of Potato and Leek with Black Truffles
2/7/02 Africa News	Tempo reports that Abacha's Minister of Special Duties, about to become head of the opposition party in Nigeria, opines "a democracy without opposition is just like soup without salt."
2/7/02 Agence France Presse	Five die in Vietnam after a woman mistakes rat poison for seasoned flour and adds it to the family soup.
2/7/02 New York Daily News	Olympic Committee head Mitt Romney, determined to break the stalemate over the handling the Ground Zero American flag, carried hot soup into late night negotiations with the IOC to work out a compromise on how it could be carried by an honor guard of athletes and New York police and firefighters in a ceremony to honor terror victims.
2/6/02 Edmonton Sun	Sally Johnson reports that Edmonton Mayor Bill Smith admits he eats a lunch of soup and sandwich at his desk several days a week...all in the name of work ethic.
2/6/02 The State (South Carolina)	Carol J. G. Ward reports that Finland's armed forces eat pea soup and pancakes every Thursday of every week of their lives.
2/5/02 AP Worldstream	Mari Yamaguchi reports that Japan whaling officials have launched their campaign to resume whaling with a "Let's Cook" brochure that details a recipe for whale soup along with color photos.
2/4/02 EFE News Service	Soup has been rushed to the scene of the Turkish earthquake, where thousands of people have been left homeless in the wake of 300 aftershocks in the Afyon province.
2/4/02 Shimburi	112-year old Yukikhi Chuganji, now the world's oldest man, credits his longevity to beef and pork with meals of rice and miso soup, plus some moderate alcohol on the side.
2/3/02 CNN	Martin Savidge reports from Camp Kandahar in Afghanistan that U.S. troops are avidly watching the Superbowl with cups of soup and coffee for snacks and beverages.
2/3/02 Sunday Business Post	Damien Kibert reports on Afghani warlord Abdul Basir, treating and intimidating his visiting journalists with mutton soup in his front yard.
2/2/02 Japan Economic Wire	While Japanese deplore the recent decision by the International Olympic Committee to withdraw recognition of sumo as an olympic sport, Nagano House in Salt Lake City has opted to keep its Olympic focus by offering 1,000 cups of free miso soup every morning during the games.
Spring (February) 2002 In Style	Dody Tsiantar reports that wedding planners advise marrying couples to serve soup at the reception "to look like you're splurging when you're not."
2/1/02 The Scotsman	Damien Mcelroy in Beijing reports that Chinese conservationists have launched a campaign to sign up 8 million chefs to pledge not to cook endangered species, including beetles and scorpions for soup.