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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: October 2002)

Date Item
10/29/02
Associated Press State & Local		 Brian D. Crecente reports on serial murderer Sean Paul Hanify, who detailed to police how he brutally tortured and killed victim Ed Brown, his partner in crime, then soaked in Ed's bathtub, smoked one of his cigarettes, and ate a bowl of his soup before leaving the blood-spattered apartment.
10/29/02
Daily Post (Liverpool)		 A new study indicates that different blood types require different diets, so that while all types can eat fresh bean and onion soup, only type Os and As should try black turtle bean soup.
10/29/02
The Express		 Will Stewart in Moscow reports that gassed victims of the Chechen hostage taking are being fed a watery hospital soup that most Russian patients won't touch. Says one student, happy to be alive, "I've never had a better soup than this in my life."
10/28/02
BBC		 A just freed Kurdish PUK political prisoner says he received one and a half loaves of bread and a half glass of soup to eat each day while imprisoned in Bagdad, but that the soup was actually just hot water.
10/28/02
People		 Bill Hewitt and others report on a psychological profile of Saddam Hussein, recalling his publicity shots during the Gulf War that showed him seasoning his soldiers' soup.
10/26/02
AP Online		 Sara Kugler reports that Chief Moose, spokesperson during the East Coast sniper investigation, has been showered with gifts of appreciation since the arrests, including homemade chicken soup.
10/23/02
The Scotsman		 John Innes reports on 107-year-old Briton Christina Morrison of the Western Isles, who says about her longevity, "I eat proper food like soup and fish and I never smoked or drank. That's my only secret--that and hard manual work--although I will sometimes have sausages. Oh yes, I love sausages."
10/22/02
Daily Mail		 Nick Craven, revisiting the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya 50 years ago, quotes one farmer who remembers how Mau Maus used to turn up at dusk to slaughter families just as they were sitting down to dinner: "If you made it through soup," he said, "you figured you were safe for another day."
10/21/02
Agence France Presse		 A 4-year-old boy in Caldelas, Portugal, refused to eat his soup until he was permitted to play with his father's gun...then accidentally shot his mother in the stomach with it.
10/20/02
Associated Press		 The West Point Museum is currently exhibiting the soup tureen of Academy's first superintendent, Col. Jonathan Williams, nephew of Benjamin Franklin.
10/19/02
Chicago Tribune		 David Mendell and Ray Long report that campaigning Democrat Rod Blagojevich extricated himself from an angry crowd of homeless protestors outside a fundraiser by hugging a number of them and buying a 5-cent cup of soup from them.
10/19/02
The Express		 Jane Warren reports on a BBC documenary about new archeological research on Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza, showing it was not built by slaves but by temporary contractors who were fed two squares a day with onions, garlic, root vegetables, unleavened bread, and fermented barley soup with a real kick.
10/19/02
The Spectator		 Simon Courtauld reports on Madame du Barry's eternal association with cauliflower soup, recalling that friend Mme. Recamier always served it to her and King XV when they came to dine, who would complain if they were offered anything else as a starter.
10/19/02
The Melbourne Herald Sun		 Mark Butler reports on murderer Matthew Wales, who drugged his millionaire parents' vegetable soup and served it to them, then bludgeoned them to death.
10/17/02
AP State & Local		 Jack Elliot, Jr., reports on the Mississippi senate and house killing protection bills for business, Senator Terry Burton (D-Newton) commenting, "We sent them a bowl of soup and they sent us dishwater."
10/16/02
Japan Economic Wire		 The Thai government has issued a warning that vendors of fish and rice soup have been caught using the poisonous puffer fish to make the soup.
10/13/02
The Bradenton Herald		 Meg Laughlin reports that a computer blunder put hundreds of thousands of dollars into the canteen accounts of 186 inmates in Florida prisons, who proceeded to spend it on everything from televisions...to chicken soup.
10/11/02
Agence France Presse		 Shigemi Sato reports on German born Kim Yeon-Ji, who moved to Korea 6 years ago with her father and now has won the Asian Games in Taekwondo. She says, "I like to eat spaghetti, but these days I'm trying more of rice and bone soup, Korean style."
10/11/02
Omaha World Herald		 Corey Ross reports that a posthumous Kurt Cobain song release called "You Know You're Right" is heading to stardom: "Steaming soup against her mouth/Nothing really bothers her/She just wants to love herself...."
10/10/02
Deseret News (Utah)		 Carma Wadley repoorts on early 19th century U.S. frontier medical cures, including owl soup for whooping cough.
10/10/02
National Public Radio		 Upon him winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Imre Kertesz' autobiographic Holocaust novel Fatelessis recalled, the young protagonist at the end laying in his hospital bed at liberation and hearing that goulash soup was being prepared only then permits himself to think about freedom.
10/9/02
Brisbane News		 David May recalls when Danish King Fredrik III in the mid 15th century used to travel from Copenhagen to Drago to eat eel soup made by his innkeeper friend Svend Hansen Gynge.
10/7/02
The Guardian		 High living pulp novelist Jeffrey Archer, sent to jail for perjury, is serializing his prison diaries in The Daily Mail: in them he describes bored prisoners holding ant races, then adding the losing ants to "tomorrow's soup."
10/7/02
People		 Oprah Winfrey says her new slimness is a result of good habits, including her toting her own soup to work for lunch every day.
10/6/02
Newsday		 New York Democratic congressman contender Timothy Bishop was cultivating Long Island union leaders over lentil soup when the call came in to his cell phone: Rep. Felix Grucci had just launched a radio attack on his past policies.
10/5/02
The Guardian		 A. C. Grayling recalls Junichiro Tanizaki's recollections of drinking soup from a lacquerware dish: "Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance."
10/4/02
Associated Press		 Bruce Dunford reports on the funeral of Hawaii's Congresswoman Patsy Mink, where current Rep. Jim Shon recalled joining her, as a young intern, at the Congressional cafeteria for a bowl of Portagee bean soup.
10/4/02
The Mirror		 Andrew Penman and Michael Greenwood report on incompetent conman Simone Rossi, who conned hundreds of top Europeans restaurants under the name Charles Chalford-Morgan by submitting bogus dry cleaning bills of 19.99£ for soup supposedly spilled on his silk jacket. Many paid up, but one problem: he couldn't cash the cheques as they were made out to his false name.
10/4/02
The Record
(Bergen Country, New Jersey)		 Deena Yellin reports that Paramus Catholic High School students sent letters and soup to members of the 229 Aviation Regiment, stationed on battle lines in Afghanistan. One student wrote: "When times get hard, just keep you head up high and do your best. And be sure to eat up the soup I am sending you."
10/3/02
The Express		 Ruth Hilton interviews Madonna, who extols all things English on account of her English husband, but she still skips the big English breakfast: "So I have my bowl of macrobiotic miso soup and then I go out and shoot some pheasant."
10/3/02
MX		 Scientists have just discovered the Chiapas catfish, an entirely new family oif fish, which people in remote areas of southern Mexico have been eating in soup for generations.
10/3/02
The Plain Dealer
(Cleveland, Ohio)		 Jo Maxse reports that Texas Tech coah Bob Knight recalled at a recent fundraiser his early days at Cleveland State coach Rollie Massimino's basketball camps where he was fed only "potato soup, potato salad, and potato chips."
10/2/02
MX		 An Australian woman detailed to members of the U.S. Congress her nightmare story of being jailed in Laos, including being forced to eat soup made from fish found in sewage pools.