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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: October 2001)

Date	Item
10/30/01 The Washington Post	In "Gas Mask Etiquette," Art Buchwald poses as "The Home Front Answer Man" on today's terrorism issues, counseling some one who asks, "I panic easily, what should I do": "Eat chicken soup and drink lots of fluids."
10/29/01 Agence France Presse	Christian Lowe reports from Tashkent on political prisoners forced to repeatedly sing the Uzbek national anthem and survive only on a thin diet of soup with smelly potatoes and cabbage.
10/29/01 Cox News Service	Jim Ash reports on Florida state senator Rod Smith (D) and his assessment of the Florida legislature's anti-terrorism bill: "It's not soup yet, but that doesn't mean there isn't going to be a meal."
10/29/01 Belgian News Service	Members of the Belgian Liberation Army are reported to have stolen 53 decorative Halloween pumpkins to turn into soup for the poor. The BLA objects to the "improper use of pumpkins."
10/29/01 Aberdeen Press and Journal	A. Middleton reports that worm soup was on the menu for the city's Halloween celebration.
10/29/01 The Advertiser	Marty Smith reports that Hungarian-born U.S. newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer fired several employees during his lifetime for the noisy way they ate soup.
10/26/01 Defense and Security	Vladimir Georgiev reports on U.S. special forces at an Uzbekistan air force base deploying for the sole purpose of distributing packets of bean soup and crackers over Afghan territory.
10/26/01 San Francisco Chronicle	Anna Badkhen repoorts that U.S. airdropped food packages are now appearing in North Afghanistan souqs, selling for 70 cents a crack. They are wrapped in bright yellow plastic and picture an American flag and a man raising a spoon to his mouth. Inside is a daily ration of food that includes freeze dried lentil soup. Afghans are skeptical, though, mostly throwing out everything but the soup and beef stew, feeding the peanut butter to their donkeys.
10/24/01 Moscow News	Yevgeny Kunistyn remembers legendary comic and actor Arkady Raidin who used to reduce his audience to tears of laughter with his German gags, saying Einundzwanzig, vierundsechzig, then giving it ridiculous Russian translations like "Pour me more of the same cabbage soup, but make sure it's a little thicker this time."
10/24/01 The Washington Post	Al Kamen reports on the minutes of the State Department's Cafeteria Patrons Committee, revealing that watery soup is served in its august halls: "Mr. Vincent J. Chaverini and Miss Ruby Downing stated that the soups are thin and they would like the consistency to be checked." The caterer rebuts, "employees tend to skim off the top of the soup so that when customers come later, there is no meat." Mr. Chaverini counterattacks: "the soup lids are awkward and when you lift them to get soup, they tend to fall off the container. [He] would also like the cafeteria to make sure that the cracker tray is adequately refilled." Mr. Kamen, fascinated, has responded by inititating a government-wide survey of cafeteria soups. Stay tuned for the results.
10/23/01 Los Angeles Times	Larry Stewart quotes columnist Melvin Durslag's story about football coach George Allen and soup: "Crackers came with the soup, but George was so focused on football, he took the chocolate chip cookie, rather than the crackers, and crumbled it up in his soup."
10/21/01 Kyodo News Service	72-year-old Shoro Shimura, kidnapped for the second time in Colombia by leftist guerillas on August 31, this time negotiated his own release on 10/19 and is on his way back to Japan. Shimura was fed 3 meals of soup a day by his captors.
10/21/01 Los Angeles Times	David Moss reports on 3 guys going on a do-it-yourself safari in Botswana and living to laugh about it--they counted on nightly packets of dried vegetable soup to survive.
10/21/01 Toronto Sun	Jerry Gladman recalls the 1936 cave-in rescue by mining engineer Art McPherson, who kept those trapped 141-feet underground by lowering soup down the tiny pipe that connected them to the surface.
10/20/01 Savvy Traveler	Diane Nyad reports on how Newfoundland towns fed straded passengers of Flight 15 soup, when they were re-routed there after the attacks on the World Trade Center.
10/20/01 The London Times	Godfrey Baker reflects on poisonings in the wake of anthrax attacks in the the U.S., recalling that Calais was allegedly bombed in modern history with poisoned soup powders.
10/18/01 Lewiston Morning Tribune	Tsoop Nit Palu, a group of Nez Perce kids, are holding a traditional soup dance ceremony to honor all veterans and warriors at the Kamiah Reservation.
10/18/01 Omaha World-Herald	Shannon Henson and Nichole Aksamit identify soup mix as one of the substances that could be mistaken for anthrax.
10/17/01 The Statesman	Oliver August reports from Afghanistan on Northern Alliance General Mohammed Isaq, sitting at his command post dunking bread into a bowl of beef soup and complaining that the food airdropped for refugees wasn't very good and that he'd prefer weapons to peanut butter.
10/16/01 Associated Press	Brandan Riley reports that U.S. Marines, in training in the High Sierras for battles in Afghanistan, are being taught to cook soup from wild gooseberries, stinging nettles, yarrow, watercress, and other plants. "It was the worst-tasting thing I ever had in my life," said one lieutenant.
10/14/01 Atlanta Journal and Constitution	Jeffrey Denberg reports on Atlanta Hawks' basketball star Toni Kukoc, who recalls growing up in wartorn Split, Croatia, where foes were imprisoned and fed soup laced with ground glass.
10/14/01 Buffalo News	Sue Ann Levy reports on a chicken-soup smelling Toronto shop, haunted by Mrs. Herman, a Russian immigrant and former tenant, and her ghostly broth.
10/13/01 BBC, Central Asian Unit	Tajik radio reports that US/UK air forces have resumed bombing Kabul and US aircraft are dropping cardboard boxes full of vegetable soup and other food near refugee camps in Afghanistan.
10/11/01 The Guardian	Arthur Smith reports on Leonard Cohen's new album, "Ten New Songs," produced after nearly 10 years of being a Buddhist monk and cooking soup for his mountain guru.
10/11/01 The Washington Post	William Harwood reports that Russian cosmonauts Tyurin and Dezhurov comforted U.S. Space Station Commander Frank Culbertson on 9/11 by making him borscht, his favorite soup, and giving him plenty of space to come to terms with the terrorist attacks in America on that day.
10/8/01 Africa News	Ndigbo marked their day worldwide as a cultural celebration on 9/29, serving the traditional pounded yam with egusi soup to high table guests, as required.
10/8/01 Gold Coast Bulletin	Australian labour candidate Kim Beazley has slimmed down on a soup diet to be in fighting trim for his upcoming and hotly contested federal election battle with John Howard.
10/8/01 Sports Illustrated	Gary Van Sickle notes that Pine Valley Country Club, reknowned for its snapper soup [which I can vouch for], will open its course on 10/15 and 10/22, for the first time in its 79-year history, to allow nonmembers to play at $1000 each to raise money fo the Twin Towers Fund of New York City.
10/8/01 U.S. News and World Report	Linda Kulman et al. report on New York City getting back to normal, with David Letterman joking that New York cockroaches recently spelled out "USA" in his soup.
10/7/01 Anchorage Daily News	Jim Paulin reports that Alaska is prepared to supply Japan with big kelp, used for soup bases, as local supplies are dwindling.
10/7/01 Mail on Sunday (London)	Bill Wyman, Rolling Stone, reports that he fell in love with Mock Turtle Soup when he was 18 and stationed in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1955 as a soldier.
10/6/01 BBC review of Bulgarian news	Sega press photographers captured Bulgarian President Stoyanov and Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg-Gotha delivering spoonsful of soup to their mouths during a formal lunch.
10/6/01 The Economist	80-year-old "Direct Cinema" filmmaker Richard Leacock serves Canary Island soup (pumpkin, peppers, and sweet corn) to journalists to discuss his life and work.
10/6/01 The Mirror	Saskia Leisk repoorts through Kristie Bragg, Nicole Kidman's body double in Moulin Rouge, that Ms. Kidman did not eat with the crew on the set but rather ordered low-fat meals like broccoli soup from specialist caterers.
10/5/01 The Guardian	Lee Serrer exposes the truth about Robert Mitchum's drug arrest in 1948: "I liked it in jail," Mitchum said--including the soup that was served every single day at 10 am.
10/5/01 Philadelphia Inquirer	At the approach of Temple University coach John Chaney's induction into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, Mike Jensen reports on Chaney's habit of eaching only soup and coffee before a game--chicken soup, that is, with everything skimmed out to leave only the broth.
10/5/01 USA Today	100,000 gallons of fluids--including soups--will be available for athletes competing in the 25th Ironman Triathalon World Championship on Sunday, 10/7.
10/4/01 Star Tribune	Rick Nelson reports on a Minneapolis restaurant that sponsored a firefighter seafood soup cookoff, with proceeds going to the New York City Firefighter's Widow's Fund.
10/3/01 AP State and Local	Hackettstown M&M candy employees are reported to have sent its Uncle Ben's Sampling Bus to Ground Zero of the World Trade Center with 26,000 pounds of hot rice and soup meals for rescue workers.
10/1/01 Gulf News	Subrata Banerjee reports on the widespread starvation deaths in Orissa, caused by drought then unprecedented rains that destroyed rice and maize production, leaving only enough mango kernels to make one meal of soup a day for most inhabitants.
10/1/01 Interview	Ingrid Sischy reports on her interview with French fashion designer Michael Kors, who recalls his longing for things French--including French onion soup--while a 12 year old growing up in America.