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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: July 1999)

Date Item
7/31/99
Canberra Times		 Sylvia Marchant reviews the new book by Katie Hickman, entitled Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives, that recounts ceremonial occasions when these intrepid woman ate dinner soup that was strained through a greasy turban.
7/28/99
Investor's Business Daily		 President Clinton, at a Medicare event with First Lady Hillary Rodham and Donna Shalala on 7/27, openly decried Republican tax-cut plans, saying "We can't eat the cake until the vegetables and soup are out of the way."
7/27/99
Associated Press State & Local Wire		 The Reverend Solanus Casey, founder of Detroit's Capuchin Soup Kitchen, is being investigated by the Vatican for presumptively healing a nun through faith. The investigation could lead to Casey being declared blessed and possibly end in sainthood for the saintly man who died in 1957 and was declared venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1993.
7/27/99
NBC Today Show		 Katie Couric interviews Dr. Diana Dell, Duke University gynecologist, who opines that hot flashes are linked to the eating of hot soup.
7/27/99
The Montreal Gazette		 Sarah Lambert reports that animal rights activists protested outside the South Korean Consulate General over the Korean custom of serving cooked slices of dog meat in a soup called boshintang ("healthy soup"), flavored with garlic, spices, and sesame, that is believed to enhance sexual stamina.
7/26/99
Los Angeles Times		 FBI SAC James Maddock announced the arrest of Cary Stayner, accused murderer in the Yosemite National Park murders. Stayner was a local handyman who is remembered by neighbors as a loner who often went to the Cedar Lodge bar "to gulp down a bowl of soup."
7/26/99
The Weekly Standard		 Disgruntled Republican staff members of former Republican (now Democrat) New York congressman Michael Forbes report that their ex-boss likes soup but doesn't like corn--and they recall the day he made a staffer pick out every kernel of corn from his dehydrated soup-in-a-cup lunch.
7/26/99
Western Daily Press (Bristol)		 Prince Charles cheered up Jennifer Paterson, star of television's "Two Fat Ladies," by sending 2 gallons of organic tomato soup, homemade from his Gloucestershire estate garden, to her hospital room in Chelsea. Ms. Paterson is being treated for lung cancer.
7/26/99
Los Angeles Times		 Bob Drogin reports that Madeline Albright shared shark's fin soup in Beijing with China's minister of foreign affairs Tang Jiaxuan, in an attempt to ease tensions before an Asia-Pacific economic forum in New Zealand this September to be attended by Clinton and Jiang Zemin.
7/25/99
Chicago Tribune		 Michael Hirsley reports that heavyweight contender Michael Grant, primed to meet Lou Savarese in NYC in 2 weeks, is hewing to a severe training diet, including spinach soup, salad, and cantaloupe for lunch.
7/24/99
The Daily Telegraph (London)		 David Burgess-Wise recalls Emile Levassor's 1895 epic victory in the first true motor race, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in a record 48 hours and 48 minutes--stopping only at the halfway point to consume a glass of champagne and a cup of weak soup.
7/20/99
The Hartford Courant		 George Dourountous, manager at NYC Socrates Restaurant, recalls Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy "ritually ordering matzo ball soup" and grieves for her untimely death.
7/20/99
Los Angeles Times		 Jonathan Peterson reports from Washington on escalating trade tensions among nations, including the newest round of European Union retaliatory tariffs against the United States--no more soup from Germany or France.
7/19/99
The Daily Telegraph (London)		 Robert Philip reports on Thai golfer Prayad Marksaeng at the British Open at Carnoustie--who reacted to shooting a 20-over-par 91 in the first round (and last in the 152-person field) by returning to his room and preparing his own evening meal of tom yang kung, "a volcanically hot prawn soup in which tiny red chilies lurk like sharks waiting to take off your tongue."
7/18/99
Associate Press State and Local Wire		 On the occasion of John F. Kennedy, Jr's death, retired Secret Service Agent Robert Foster recalls that on November 25, 1963, Kennedy--3 years old at the time--returned to the White House from his father's funeral and ate a lunch of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.
7/18/99
The Jerusalem Post		 Danna Harman reports that Ehud and Nava Barak, with their daughter Michal, welcomed Shabbat at the New York Waldorf Astoria with a meal beginning with glatt kosher pea soup.
7/18/99
The Washington Post		 Cindy Loose reports that pugnacious boxer Mike Tyson served soup to the homeless for two weeks at the Father McKenna Center in the District before being sentenced on assault charges.
7/17/99
The New York Times		 President Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak are drawn together over cold fennel soup at Camp David by the politics and history of peace enacted there 21 years earlier by President Carter, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin.
7/12/99
Gannett News Service		 Tim Nash recalls early, "pioneer" days of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team, when team members attended a post-tournament banquet in China and feasted on snake soup.
7/12/99
Newsweek		 Evan Thomas reviews B.W. Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, which asserts that "ER" purposefully hired a dreadful cook to feed FDR "execrable meals of watery soups, etc."--all to make him suffer for his dalliances.
7/09/99
The New York Post		 Anna Cock reports that Governor Pataki is paying up on the bet he lost to Governor George Bush, when the Knicks were defeated by the San Antonio Spurs: matzoh ball soup from Ben's Best Deli in Queens, which also sent pastrami and corned beef shaped like NY state, chopped liver shaped like the Empire State Building, and rolls and breads shaped like Knicks basketballs.
7/09/99
Chicago Tribune		 Christian Bande Velde, U.S. entry in the Tour de France, reports on his team's diet during the race, including soup for dinner.
7/09/99
The Daily Telegraph (London)		 The obituary of Catholicos Karekin I, leader of the Armenian Church, recalls his spirituality, his conviviality, his leadership, and his delight in welcoming visitors to his palace, where he would dismiss his retainers, serve soup himself, and wax lyrical about the benefits of widescreen television.
7/09/99
The Atlanta Constitution		 Richard Eldredge reports that 90-year-old Quentin Crisp, "the world's oldest living gay icon," wowed a private Atlanta benefit dinner by solving a knotty protocol problem when chilled tomato soup with rosemary cream was served...without spoons. Without doffing his black fedora, Crisp picked up the bowl and drank his soup, like a good boy.
7/09/99
The Herald Express (Torquay)		 Soccer star Jason Charlesworth, on a pure soup diet, will be out of action until Christmas after breaking his jaw in 3 places. He has re-signed for Dawlish Town.
7/09/99
Los Angeles Times		 On the eve of the China-America face-off in the Women's Soccer World Championship, Grahame Jones recalls the 1991 match in Guangzhou, China, when the American team beat Norway, 2-1--and the "5-snake soup" he ate that he is sure will take many more than 8 years to forget.
7/07/99
Austin American-Statesman		 Leah Quin reports that the 16-year-old boy who fatally scalded with soup the 19-month girl he was babysitting was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to child injury, escape, and car theft. The boy, who was romantically involved with the 24-year-old mother (who was in prison at the time), said he accidentally kicked over the boiling hot chicken noodle soup on the baby, then panicked and threw her body in a cardboard box outside the trailer.
7/05/99
The Daily Telegraph (London)		 Posh Spice girl Victoria Adams and star Manchester footballer David Beckham called for a "'no-nonsense' English meal" at their wedding reception at Luttrellstown Castle, outside Dublin--and got what they asked for: red pepper soup, inter alia.
7/05/99
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)		 Vanessa Bauza reports that police rock band Asp Soup entertains kids and seniors in community programs with original tunes and covers from alternative bands. The "asp" part of their moniker comes from the brand name of their extendable night sticks.
7/03/99
National Public Radio)		 Reporter Robert Trout honors the 60th anniversary of Pan American Airlines first scheduled commercial flight between the United States and Europe by recalling the press preview flight in 1939 from Long Island Sound to Lisbon: the 42-ton Boeing 314 landed in and took off from the water; contained a "bridal suite" and a smoking room; and dinner--with turtle soup--was served in the lounge on white table linen.
7/03/99
The Toronto Sun		 Bob Elliott reports on the induction of Bobby Mattick (Blue Jay manager, 1980-81) into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Mattick was reknowned for his scouting success and his indefatigable practice sessions--hitting 100 fly balls to Lloyd Moseby, taking a break for soup, then hitting another 100...and another 100.
7/01/99
The Scottish Daily Record		 Gary Jones reports that British troops in Kosovo were called to a house in Pristina where a distraught Albanian mother showed them the severed head of her 13-year-old daughter in a pot of soup. She accused Serbian paramilitaries of entering her home, repeatedly raping her daughter, decapitating the girl with a machete, then forcing her to put her daughter's head in the pot of soup she had been cooking.