Click HERE to discuss press coverage of soup.Or take a look at the homepage MENU.
Or SEARCH for something.
* * *
Or take a look at the homepage MENU.
Or SEARCH for something.
* * *
Soup in the News
(Archive Dateline: May 2001)
| Date | Item |
|---|---|
| 5/31/01 AP Worldstream |
Children in rural Idaho who have been subsisting on soup made of lake water and lily pads have engaged local law enforcement in a standoff, setting dogs on the deputy sheriffs who arrested their mother on child abuse charges. |
| 5/25/01 Press Association Newsfile |
Melvyn Howe reports on undercover journalist Eddie Achunche tracking the forbidden "bushmeat" trade in Britain--posing as a nephew of a tribal chief, he was offered for 350 £ the body of a smoked tantalus primate, spices, and a recipe for peppered monkey soup. |
| 5/25/01 The Hotline |
CNN's Greenfield describes the impact of Senator Jefford's party switch on Bush's agenda: "It's the reverse of chicken soup. It doesn't help." |
| 5/22/01 Washington Post |
Lawrence Lindner reports on a woman hospitalized for fever and badly blistered skin after eating homemade celery-parsnip-parsley soup on the heels of her chemotherapy medication--causing an interactive overdose of psoralens, that caused her to break out in blisters when she hit sunlight. |
| 5/21/01 AAP Newsfeed |
Korean presidential look-alike Bae Eun-Sik is threatening to go to court after being banned from capitalizing on his resemblance to Kim Jong II in television ads to promote instant fish soup. |
| 5/21/01 Associated Press State and Local Wires |
Siobhan McDonough reports that the fracas started by the Carson City, Nevada, "Soup Lady" who distributed soup to the sick without a license is being rectified. An Assembly panel is voting to permit charitable, unlicensed soup giving. |
| 5/20/01 Arizona Republic |
Bill Muller recalls true stories from the Pearl Harbor attack, including soup from the bombed U.S.S. Pennsylvania, being served after the attack with the chef's arm at the bottom of the pot. |
| 5/20/01 New York Times |
Lisa Foderaro reports on skunk stink remedies in Buffalo, citing a woman who maneuvered her smelly German Shepard into a 12-can tomato soup bath. Didn't work so well, though. |
| 5/19/01 Agence France Presse |
Eight Swiss cavers were restored to health with soup after being rescued from 3 days trapped in a flooded underground tunnel system in eastern France. |
| 5/19/01 Bangkok Post |
Three Koreans were arrested in possession of illegal snake items, including 428 packs of snake soup powder. |
| 5/18/01 Africa News |
231 school children in South Africa were hospitalized after being served soup from their nutritional programme at Sekemisa Primary School. |
| 5/18/01 Scottish Daily Record |
A new 3-D Disney computer game asks tots to deciper a recipe for chicken soup, make it, and feed it to Pluto to cure his sniffles. |
| 5/14/01 Newsweek |
Jeffrey Bartholet reports on recent atrocities in Liberia, including new rebels' treatment of prisoners: one relief worker, listless with hunger, was served a bowl of soup made with the meat of a human heart that had been cut from a government soldier. |
| 5/14/01 Time |
Identified as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world 2001, Michelle Yeon, star of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, attributes it all to martial arts workouts, veggies, and Chinese soups. |
| 5/14/01 The Evening Standard (London) |
British actress Elizabeth Hurley claims she gets her "hot-date look" by eating lots and lots of watercress soup. |
| 5/14/01 The Mirror (London) |
NOP polling of 2,000 Brits showed soup the 2nd most popular lunchtime food, after sandwiches--a clear 53% of those polled chose it. |
| 5/13/01 AAP Newsfeed |
Thousands of Portuguese lined up to eat 6,000 litres of soup in Tomar at its 7th annual outdoor Soup Congress. For 1,500 escudos ($6.50 U.S. dollars), people could sample 71 soups from 44 restaurants. |
| 5/13/01 Boston Herald |
Monica Collins reports on former New York Times Paris correspondent Adam Gopnik's address to Boston francophiles, in which he admitted missing "Yankee Bean Soup" during his years in France. |
| 5/11/01 AP Worldstream |
Marcel Van De Hoef reports that 5 Iraqi (Kurdish) hunger strikers ended their 95-day protest with soup and rice after learning that the Dutch government had already met their demands for asylum days before. |
| 5/9/01 Japan Economic Newswire |
A woman and her daughter fell ill in Tokyo after drinking miso soup with supposedly organic rape leaves...that had been impregnated with high dosages of nicotine. |
| 5/9/01 L.A. Times |
Russ Parsons, L.A. Times Food Editor and author of How to Read a French Fry, recommends a sensational strawberry soup dessert. |
| 5/8/01 CBS Early Show |
Jane Clayson looks at non-traditional wedding cakes with Bradley Bayou, including a "chicken and matzo ball soup cake"--made to recreate a magic moment in that couple's courtship. |
| 5/8/01 L.A. Times |
Robyn Dixon reports on the grass soup that is being made by starving Afghan refugees, fleeing Taliban, who are trapped in a no man's land between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. |
| 5/7/01 Saigon Times |
Two Korean entrepreneurs have opened a McDonald's style restaurant in Vietnam's Mekong Delta that specializes in chicken and sweet soup. |
| 5/6/01 Cox News Service |
Patricia Guthrie reports that Marvin Isley, youngest of the famous R&B singing brothers, is taking a strong public stand against canned soups and other processed foods, claiming they hastened the domino asault of diabetes that nearly killed him. |
| 5/6/01 The Times Union (Albany, NY) |
Michael Eck reports on a New Yorker story about poet Allen Ginsberg's last pot of soup, made just days before he died in 1997--a fish stock variation that was described as both "glorious" and "execrable" by various friends. One of whom saved the last of it and froze it as a cultural icon. Museums are now vying to secure it. |
| 5/5/01 Vero Beach Press Journal |
Mike Connors reports that LA Dodger Third Baseman Adrian Beltre is still fighting his way back to recovery on an all soup diet after rupturing his appendix--for awhile, he was walking around with his kolostomy bag in one hand and a bowl of soup in the other. |
| 5/4/01 AP State and Local Wire |
A Dandelion soup contest has been billed as one of the main events of this year's annual Dandelion festival in Borculo, Michigan. |
| 5/4/01 L.A. Tiimes |
Steven Braun reports on Deejay Jerry Blavet's description of now-deceased Philadelphia capo Angelo Bruno, "the Docile Don": he was so humble and so stupidly rigid in his routines, says Blavett, that even the neighbors knew that he always ate soups for Monday night dinners. |
| 5/2/01 Bulletin Frontrunner |
Reporting on late night political humor, the bulletin notes Dave Letterman saying: "George W. did something I thought was pretty interesting. He invited Congress to a big luncheon at the White House and only, listen to this, only a third of them showed. That seems kind of rude, doesn't it? But be fair, who really wants to watch Dick Cheney take his soup intravenously?" |
| 5/1/01 Agence France Presse |
2,000 union members marched in protest in Belgrade to mark May Day, then gathered at Nikola Pasic Square to eat bean soup, traditionally prepared by union leaders for May Day. |
| 5/1/01 Belfast Newsletter |
A Canadian nursery is frantically trying to track down people who bought poisonous Autumn Monkshood plants labeled "tasty in soup." The label was replaced the original "all parts toxic" by an employee fond of practical jokes...and now unemployed. |
| 5/1/01 Toronto Star |
Prince Charles hosted 300 invitation-only guests to cold pea soup at his farewell to Canada shindig. |