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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: April 2004)

Date	Item
4/19/04 Agence France Presse	115 are poisoned in Shaanxi province by a local delicacy, mutton and bun soup. Too much nitrite had been added.
4/17/04 South China Morning Post	To Han Shih reports on a local official in Guangdong's north hinterland who slurped armadillo soup during an interview, bragging that it was an illegal delicacy.
4/17/04 St. Petersburg Times (Florida)	Bridget Hall Grumet reports on CIA-trained Cuban Juan De Sosas' memories of his capture after the Bay of Pigs, imprisoned in Castillo del Principe, and fed spoiled black-eyed pea soup.
4/16/04 Courier Mail (Queensland)	Morman Leader Gordon Hinckley's recently deceased wife loved to recall that she and her husband prayed constantly about absolutely everything, including that they wouldn't burn the soup.
4/15/04 Good Morning America	National Public Radio's Cokie Roberts brings cups of Martha Washington's Crab Soup to the show to promote her new book on Founding Mothers.
4/15/04 Lancaster Eagle Gazette (Ohio)	Jo Ann Schosek reports on "world walker" Steven Newman regaling school children with stoires of eating squashed cockroach soup in Thailand.
4/11/04 Indianapolis Star	Terry Hutchens reports on the Hot & Sour fantasy baseball league, so named because several "owners" like the hot & sour soup at Indianapolis' Forbidden City restaurant.
4/10/04 Atlanta Journal-Constitution	Chip Towers reports on Round 2 of the Masters and Korean golfer K. J. Choi, living in Houston, who says he still craces kim chee, but makes do with potato soup and steak.
4/10/04 Indianapolis Star	Lawrence Connor reports on Brian Lamb's book Booknotes on American Character, which recalls Simon and Schuster editor Michael Kordas' anecdote about editing Richard Nixon's memoirs: when he was invited for lunch at Nixon's New York City home, Nixon greeted him with a formal handshake saying, "Very nice to see you, very nice." Nixon then turned to wife Pat, shook her hand, and said "Very nice to see you, very nice," then sat down and started eating his soup.
4/10/04 Atlanta Journal-Constitution	Ralph Vartabedian reports on an exposé of Northrop's El Monte plant, where emploiyees were seen smoking cigarettes, boiling soup, and watching soap operas inside designated "clean rooms" that had to be free of contaminants.
4/4/04 New York Post	Singer Billy Joel ended up in the hospital for stitches after he cut his finger opening a can of beans for the soup his young fiancee was making.
4/4/04 San Jose Mercury News	Following up a tip, Turkish police found a rich industrialist--locked in his bathroom by his wife for 3 years--wearing no clothes and with nothing but a bowl of soup.
4/2/04 Agence France Presse	NATO is reported to have canceled its free soup and fighter jet flights over Tallinn on the Baltic "enlargement day" festivities.
4/2/04 The Virginian Pilot	Six Filipino seamen, stranded in Norfolk, Virginia, when their tanker sank on 2/28, have consoled themselves with sinigang, a soup with cabbage and pork, from local Filipino restauranteurs.