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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: September 2001)

Date	Item
9/24/01 New York Daily News	Leslie Casimir reports on the Navy ship Comfort in New York harbor being converted from a hospital ship to one that is a refuge for Twin Tower emergency workers, serving them French onion soup for strength.
9/24/01 The Edmonton Sun	The Canadian press reports that 2 Canadians and 2 Australians have celebrated the end of their 4 and 1/2 month hair-raising trek in Siberia down the Yenisei River by feasting on vodka, fish soup, and reindeer stew.
9/24/01 The Washington Post	Michael E. Ruane reports on Lt. Col. Bunning, a West Nile Virus researcher currently living in an RV near an infected crow population to try to develop a vaccine. He says he's been eating nothing but soup...running for exercise...has lost 30 pounds.
9/23/01 Dallas Morning News	Jennifer Emily reports on Ron Riviezzo, Key West chef, who stopped his New Jersey vacation to make bean soup for emergency workers at Ground Zero in New York City's terrorist attack site.
9/23/01 Los Angeles Times	Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports on reservists being called up to respond to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, recalling an earlier deployment during Desert Storm when reservist daughter Erin told CNN that when Mom left on active duty, Dad made hot dog soup for dinner every night.
9/23/01 Maine Sunday Telegram	Bill Nemitz reports on Portland youth pastors for the Salvation Army pulling canteen truck duty in New York City to delive chicken noodle soup for World Trade Center victims and workers.
9/22/01 Sunday Mirror	Damien Lane reports that Irish bars in Manhattan have finally opened their doors again, but only to feed rescue crews at the Twin Towers with things like soup.
9/21/01 Lloyd's List	The Immingham Seafarers' Center is reported to have eased the plight of the 11-member crew of the arrested Maltese-flagged ro ro Black Sea Star, which crew has been forced to live on nothing but potato soup for the duration of the ship's 3-week detention on the Humber.
9/20/01 AP State & Local Wires	Mike Hingson, completely blind, recounts how his seeing eye dog led him to safety from the 78th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower on 9/11 before it collapse. The two walked 10 minutes from the site, then stopped for a bowl of soup before catching a train back to Hingson's home in New Jersey.
9/19/01 New York Times	Judy Battista reports on 80 members of the New York Jets football team who were bussed to NYC's Chamber Street to serve soup with the Salvation Army and load it on trucks, to help with the terrorist recovery effort.
9/19/01 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio	Faye Levy reports on how to prepare chicken soup as a first course before the beginning of Yom Kippur.
9/18/01 The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah)	Karl A. Van Asselt reports on the 110th annual Bean Soup Festival, held last week in McClure, Pennsylvania, to commemorate Civil War veterans.
9/18/01 The Times (London)	Nick Danziger reports on living with Afghan rebel groups, recalling evenings of sitting around a Tilley lamp in a bare room on cushions, eating mutton knuckle soup, drinking tea, and gazing and the Kalashnikovs and ammunition pouches hung on the walls.
9/18/01 The Daily Orange (Syracuse University)	Jewish students at Syracuse University reflect on their traditions of eating soup at Rosh Hashana.
9/17/01 New York Daily News	Derek Rose reports on cooks who commute into New York City to feed volunteer relief workers--including caterer Anthony Hall, Providence, Rhode Island, who was captured stirring a 35-gallon pot of vegetable soup in Manhattan.
9/17/01 San Francisco Chronicle	Vicki Haddock reports on the New York City effort by recalling Clara Barton's creation of the Red Cross at the 1889 Johnstown Flood, where she handed out soup to victims, among other services, for 5 straight weeks.
9/15/01 Boston Herald	Dave Wedge reports on professionals and citizens helping rescue crews, including Salvation Army Captain Brian Thomas handing out hot soup to rain-soaked workers on Hudson Street.
9/15/01 Scottish Daily Record	Frank Haynes reports on Edinburgh super-featherweight boxer Alex Arthur, who aims to maintain his unbeaten record in the Manchester fights by gorging on his mum's special low-fat soup.
9/15/01 Bergen City Record	Michael Casey writes of the horror in New York City, leavened by nice people like the Berlingos who made soup and delivered it to a firehouse on Second Avenue.
9/14/01 Direct Commentary	Tom Note, radio reporter for several NYC stations, reports on the World Trade Center attack, noting "The tragedy defies superlatives; radio and even television are limited severely in their abilities to describe more than the surface facts when things are this enormous. When the superhuman efforts of the fire department and other rescue personnel started to take their toll on exhausted bodies, St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village sent out an urgent plea. More than blood, more than money, what was needed was soup to keep these heroic women and men going, as well as insulated coffee pitchers to pour it from. Soup would keep longer, be transported more easily, and pack more nutrients into less volume than other comestibles. (There was also a call for Baby Wipes and tissues as the acrid smoke needed to be constantly wiped from burning eyes. Several other items you might not associate with rescue efforts were additionally requested, however soup and Baby Wipes seemed to be at the top of most lists for the first three days after the attack). As of Saturday the call for soup and other food and item donations has been called off, as a steady supply line of most necessary items has been established."
9/14/01 The Calgary Sun	Jim Taylor reports on Canadien Football League player Ches McCance who once walked barefoot on the tables of a train dining car "and tested the heat of a lady's soup by inserting his big toe."
9/14/01 New York Times	Grace Glueck reports on the Jewish Museum display of cartoonist Ben Catchor's Yiddish comic strips, enlivened by an artefact of the dessicated remains of turtle soup (circa 1831) from one Ormon's Restaurant in Manhattan.
9/13/01 The Mirror	Stephen White reports on New Yorkers offering soups from thermos bottles on trestle tables for rescue workers in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers.
9/13/01 AP Online	AUSAID workers Mel Figtree and Chris Smithers report from Tibet that "raw yak soup isn't too good."
9/13/01 USA Today	Martha Moore and Rick Hampson report that New York City's top restaurant Le Cirque sent soup to rescue workers at St. Vincent Hospital in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers.
9/13/01 Chicago Tribune	Lisa Anderson and Dan Mihalopoulour reort that New York City's Second Avenue Deli sent matso ball soup to rescue workers at St. Vincent Hospital in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers.
9/12/01 Hartford Courant	Pat Seremet and Linda Giuca report on restaurant customers who order chicken soup and turn away from the television set to try to find comfort in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
9/12/01 Boston Herald	Margery Eagan reports on a local parent who deliberately made chicken soup, in an attempt to restore normality following the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington, "so my house would smell normal for my child."
9/12/01 New Straits Times	Audrey Yeoh reports on ostrich soup from the stove of Ostrich Showfarm proprieter Colin Teh in Desar, South Africa, who says his family eats it regularly because it's good and for its health benefits.
9/10/01 Dallas Morning News	Steve Davis reviews a new Bob St. John story that recalls the annual "Soup Nose Award," given to the sports writer on the Dallas Cowboys who most disgraces himself in the course of the year. The award was originally created for an unnamed journalist who, after one too many drinks, nodded off into a bowl of French Onion Soup at a dinner party with legendary coach Tom Landry and his wife Alicia.
9/10/01 Capitol Hill Hearing Testimony	FBI Financial Crime executive Dennis Lormel testified before the Senate on medical frauds, including a self-described surgeon who marketed a soup that would cure cancer. Selling it in 45-day supply chunks for $10,000, he erroneously claimed it had cured the Queen of Thailand's cervical cancer as well as his own wife's Stage 4 brain cancer.
9/7/01 Daily Post (Liverpool)	David Powell reports on a gang of thieves that stole vital navigational gear and tins of soup from a North Wales lifeboat in Holyhead harbour that has saved 22 people in the last 5 months.
9/7/01 Ottawa Sun	Chris Stevenson reports on Saku Koivo, Montreal Candiens team captain, who is struggling with cancer of the abdomen, hoping soon to be able to keep down a regimen of soup during his chemotherapy treatments.
9/7/01 Sun Sentinal (Ft. Lauderdale)	Con Agra Grocery Products is recalling about 290,000 pounds of "Healthy Choice" chicken and rice soup because the label doesn't state it contains two common allergens, eggs and wheat flour.
9/6/01 Good Morning America	Diane Sawyer interviews Holly McCord, author of The Peanut Butter Diet, for her recipe on curried peanut butter soup.
9/6/01 Aberdeen Evening Express	Scottish centenarian Janet Bair is hailed publicly for still making "a great pot of soup."
9/6/01 Aberdeen Evening Express	A. Young reports on a study by Baxters Soup that identifies the personalities of people by their choice in soup...so that perfectionists prefer minestrone; the reliable, chicken soup; the faithful, mushroom soup, etc.
9/6/01 Columbus Dispatch	Bill Eichenberger reviews Valerian Albanov's newly translated In the Land of the White Death, which chronicles the horrific account of Russians in 1912 locked in ice on their ship Saint Anna. Only two survived, one Albanov, who wrote of how they made soup from the leather of their boots.
9/6/01 Lewiston Morning Tribune	Jodi Walker reports on a World War II veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, William Howerton, who was captured by German troops in 1944, taken to a village across the Rhine, and was starved for 31 days. He remembers one night that soup was served: as he approached the pot he saw a horse's head floating in it, complete with eyes and teeth. "When you're hungry, it's not too bad," he comments.
9/5/01 Africa News	This article recalls the Babngida-Abacha conspiracy dialogues in Nigeria, commenting that Nigeria's gang of Generals did "nothing except spend hours at pepper-soup joints planning coups."
9/3/01 The New Yorker	Elizabeth Kolbert reports that wealthy Michael Bloomberg, running to be Mayor of New York City, is providing free soup to his campaign workers at his East 56th Street campaign headquarters.
9/2/01 The Observer (London)	Jo Adams reports on Dublin pop sensation Samantha Mumba, who admits that on her first day of acting in the film The Time Machine her hand shook so badly from nervousness that she spilled the soup she was supposed to be feeding Guy Pearce all over him.
9/2/01 Sunday Times (London)	Actor Dougray Scott credits the cabbage soup diet with getting his weight down for the part of mathematical genius Tom Jericho in Mick Jagger's production of Enigma, a film about Britain breaking the codes of Nazi Germany's high command.
9/2/01 Sunday Times (London)	Lucy Hughes-Hallet reviews Jim Crace's new book The Devil's Larder, which uses soup throughout its acerbic little parables to reflect human frailties and values.