Index: SOUP IN THE NEWS ARCHIVE

Soup in the News

Date	Item
5/13/05 London Daily Mail	Paul Harris reports on the world's most expensive soup--Buddha Jumps Over the Wall--selling for GBP 108 or $208/bowl. Made over a 5-day period, it has abalone, fish stomach, ginseng, Japanese flower mushroom, shark's fin, scallop and sea cucumber in a special broth seasoned with more ginseng and Tong Tong Cho herb.
5/12/05 London Guardian	Tim Radford reports on vacations, costing $2M per person, on Russia's sector of the International Space Station--where you have to knead your soup in a bag to make it runny enough to suck through a nozzle.
5/12/05 L.A. Times	Mark Sachs reports on "American Idol" maker Randy Jackson describing a typical day off after the country club: Sometimes I'll have just the soup...then we'll go shopping.
5/11/05 Chicago Tribune	Rick Morrissey reports that baseball great Sammy Sosa, often out on injuries, is considered by fans as a soup-and-sandwich guy in a T-bone world.
5/11/05 St. Louis Post-Dispatch	Jackie Hutcherson reports from Aldesford, England, on watercress soup--reputed since the 17th century to cleanse the blood and to restore a youthful bloom to women.
5/9/05 Hull Daily Mail	V-E Day 60th Anniversary was celebrated across East Yorkshire with parades, parties, services, spam sandwiches, and soup.