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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: November 2001)

Date	Item
11/29/01 AP Online	Frazier Moore reports on actress Jennifer Garner, who plays double agent Sydney Bristow on ABC's "Alias," recoiling from the black sludge of truffle soup at a recent lunch.
11/29/01 Atlanta Journal and Constitution	Bill Banks reports on emu soup, called "dinosaur soup" by emu breeders because of the animals' history so ancient that they "ran with the dinosaurs."
11/28/01 The Australian	Vanda Carson reports on U.S. sailor Keith Kilpatrick, rescued from his around-the-world racing yacht near Australia's coast and hospitalized for a blocked intestine, now slowly regaining his strength on a diet of soup.
11/28/01 The Hartford Courant	Mark Spenser reports on a local bioterrorism response training exercise, where "victims" were issued ziplock baggies full of cream of mushroom soup to simulate vomit.
11/28/01 The Vancouver Sun	Fugitive bushman John Bjornstrom, known for stealing soup from local homes and cabins, was finally captured by RCMP officers posing as a film crew doing a story on his life.
11/27/01 The Lancaster New Era	Etiquette expert Sherly Eberlty, former aide to First Lady Nancy Reagan, confesses to a near faux pas at her first White House luncheon--nearly spooning up an "exotic clear soup" that turned out to be a finger bowl.
11/26/01 Agence France Presse	Three South Korean restaurant owners were jailed for using U.S. Army C-rat leftovers to make "Pudaechigae," or "army soup," a spicy dish popularized during the famine conditions of the 1950-53 Korean War.
11/26/01 Agence France Presse	Three South Korean restaurant owners were jailed for using U.S. Army C-rat leftovers to make "Pudaechigae," or "army soup," a spicy dish popularized during the famine conditions of the 1950-53 Korean War.
11/26/01 Time	Lance Morrow reports on Andy Grove, founder and current chairman of Intel, who began life as Andris Grof in wartime Hungary in the 40s, hiding his Jewish heritage. Grove recalls in his new autobiography Swimming Alone that his building superintendent was arrested in 1943 in Budapest for bring chicken soup to him when he was sick as it was against the law to feed Jews.
11/26/01 Agence France Presse	The Volvo Ocean Race is proceeding on schedule after the sick crewman of Amer Sports One yacht managed to eat a little soup and get his strength back.
11/25/01 AP Worldstream	David Longstreath reports on Thailands annual monkey festival, where local businessman and "Monkey King" Yongyuth Kitwatananuson has been feeding local macaques things like tomato soup once a year since 1989.
11/24/01 Belfast Telegraph	Author Audrey Dillon Malone claims in his new anthology that W.B. Yeats was so absentminded that he often put sugar in his soup and salt in his coffee.
11/23/01 Daily Oklahoman	On the menu for Thanksgiving on the USS Theodore Roosevelt for sailor so far from home: tomato soup, among other goodies.
11/23/01 Ottawa Citizen	Rod McDonald reports on the traditional Scottish celebration in Canada's Glengarry County of the Feast of St. Andrew (officially November 30) with cock-a-leekie soup.
11/23/01 The Sun	In Changsha, China, waiters are being asked to shave their heads so diners have to excuse to complain about finding hair in their soup.
11/22/01 New York Daily Post	Adam Miller and Tracy Connor report that 94-year-old Ottilie Lundgren's last meal out at Fritz's Snack Bar, before her untimely and mysterious death from inhalation anthrax, was her favorite minestrone, lobster roll, and decaf coffee.
11/21/01 New York Times	Dexter Filkins reports from Taliquan, Afghanistan, on Taliban leader Commander Israel, an ethnic Tajik, decided with his men, while breaking the Ramadan fast with bowls of soup, to defect to the Northern Alliance.
11/19/01 Asahi News Service	Japanese journalist Yanagida, visibly relieved to be freed from a month of captivity in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, described the meat and potato soup he was served for lunch and dinner by his Taliban captors.
11/19/01 Baltimore Sun	Will Englund reports from Taloqan, Afghanistan, on its joy of freedom from Taliban even while strictly observing Ramadan , old men sitting crosslegged at sunset, ready to break the fast with mint soup.
11/19/01 U. S. News & World Report	Betsy Streisand reports on the economy, noting that soup cookbooks and baking supplies are moving quickly off cooking store bookshelves.
11/17/01 Belfast Telegraph	Eddie McIlwaine reports on the BBC Special "You Only Live Once," about Uri Geller, the celebrated paranormalist, who discovered his superpowers while eating soup.
11/17/01 Daily Mail	Rebecca English and Christian Gysin report on diet guru Elizabeth Gray Gibaud, renowned for slimming down Cherie Blair and Kate Winslett, who herself keeps thin with an exclusive diet of homemade 7-grain bread and vegetable soup.
11/17/01 Financial Times (London)	Kevin Pilley reports on the Asian love of eating pets, including cat soup, which is reputed to be good for ladies' complexions and for arthritis.
11/17/01 The Scotsman	Nicholas Cage is reported to have orginally met soon-to-be-divorced whife Patricia Arquette at Canter's deli in Los Angeles over a bowl of "revolting matzo ball soup."
11/16/01 Buffalo News	Andrew Z Galarneau reports on the 8 American captives released by Taliban who were permitted to cook rice and soup under supervisions as well as have access to the Bible.
11/14/01 RosBusConsulting	Spanish company Galina Blanca intends to make substantial investments in Russia, including a factory around Nizhny Novgorod to produce a soup concentrate.
11/13/01 Associated Press State and Local Wire	Sara Kugler reports that after the crash of the American Airlines Flight into Rockaway, Queens, neighbors sprang into action, including Bill Egan, a caterer who immediately set up his stoves at home to cook soup and eggrolls for workers, victims, anyone who needed help.
11/13/01 Orlando Sentinel	Gwyneth Shaw reports on the Salvation Army's chicken soup efforts in the Rockaway area of Queens, following the plane crash into the heart of that neighborhood.
11/13/01 Philadelphia Inquirer	Steven Rea reports that Warner has issued 85 product licenses for Harry Potter merchandise to coincide with its movie release--including Harry Potter soup bowls.
11/12/01 North Korean Radio	Korean leader Kim Jong-il has, in a public address, singled out the efforts of factory worker Kim Yu-tong, who brought hare soup and chicken soup to a disabled war veteran to restore his health...and who finally married the vet on 10/30.
11/12/01 Newsweek	Emily Bendek reports on Israeli tech responses to anthrax threats, in particular Maverick Defense Technologies which developed a machine in mid October for small businesses to detect suspicious substances in letters and packages. Alas, CEO Dov Magen admits "it can't discriminate between soup powder and anthrax."
11/10/01 Liverpool Daily Post	Seoul restauranteur Lee Hak-soo vows to serve spicy dog soupd at the World Cup Soccer finals. "No one has the right to tell us not to eat it," he says.
11/10/01 Scottish Daily Record	Journalist Tam Cowan, in Search of JK Rowling's inspiration for Harry Potter at Nicholson's restaurant in Edinburgh (where she wrote the original manuscript) finds tomato and basil soup instead.
11/9/01 The Independent (London)	Brian Viner interviews Cilla Black, "Duchess of Dating" and formerly friend of the Beatles/pop singer, about her days as a cloakroom attendent at the Cavern Club in the 60s, where she was discovered by Brian Epstein. She says she was paid in "Heinz tomato soup laced with the smell of disinfectant" and a few shillings for her lunchtime work there.
11/9/01 The London Times	Philip Webster reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair and wife Cherie served Jordanian King Abdallah and Queen Rania pumpkin and butternut soup at Downing Street.
11/8/01 The Washington Post	The Reliable Source reports on the end of President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac's Rose Garden press availability. "The soup's getting cold." said President Bush. "Do you want one more question from the French press?" "You're the boss," says M. Chirac. "I'm the boss? Well, let's go eat, then."
11/8/01 Times-Picayune (New Orleans)	Paul Rioux reports on the arrest of a couple posing as stockbrokers who bilked an elderly woman out of $150,000. Evidence of the fraud was developed when the woman went undercover and taped incriminating conversations after delivering homemade soup to the couple.
11/5/01 New York Times	Elisabeth Bumiller reports on President Bush spending weekends at Camp David to unwind, hold war councils, and serve tomato soup for lunch.
11/5/01 The Advertiser	2002 Adelaide Festival features 10,000 bowls of free soup to show off the remodeled central strip of Port Road.
11/5/01 New Statesman	Lynn Barber writes about the lfe of heiress Peggy Guggenheim, "art addict," who had fits of pennypinching that made her dine on tinned tomato soup and sardines every single night after buying a job lot from a bankrupt grocer.
11/4/01 Sunday Times (London)	Graham Adams reports that "food allergy" fad diets used by some 28% of the population are unnecessary, proven by scientific tests with subjects who eat the supposed guilty food hidden in soup without allergic reaction. The study indicates only 2% of the population are truly food allergic.
11/3/01 Knight Ridder	Kurt Schoenberger reports from Quetta, Pakistan, on the weekly pro-Taliban protest of Mullahs--and the man, Mohammad Aqba, just trying to make a living, who sells chicken soup to them in the municipal soccer grounds every Friday afternoon.
11/3/01 The Times of India	Vinayanand Jha reports on the mysterious starvation deaths of zoo tigresses, saying autopsy accounts contradict the claim of the park Director that tigress Saraswati, who died Tuesday, had eaten chicken soup the week before.
11/2/01 Associated Press	Rita Beamish reports on the latest anthrax victim, Kathy T. Nguyen, whose life was marked with thoughtfulness and kind gestures--including making soup for her downstairs neighbor, though they had no common spoken language.
11/1/01 Boston Globe	A library in the town of Norwood is using an innovative way for townspeople to pay their library fines this November--bringing in cans of soup to be donated to charity.
11/1/01 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee)	Stephen D. Price reports on this weekend's powpow, sponsored by the American Indian Association of Millington and featuring corn soup.
11/1/01 USA Today	Olympic U.S. women's ice hockey team member Natalie Darwitz, from Minnesota, admits to taking soup and a coil stove to China in September because "I didn't dare try any of the food because we didn't know what we were eating."