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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: December 2001)

Date	Item
12/24/01 People magazine	Eve Heyn reports on Fran McCulloughs annual Best American Recipes cookbook and her observations on the year's food trends. Her view of the worst one? Popcorn soup.
12/16/01 New York Times	In a report on New York's Senators trying to get Congressional support for New York City's recovery, Frank Bruni reports on Hillary Clinton tending to Chuck Schumer's cold with onion soup at her favorite Capitol Hill restaurant.
12/16/01 Sunday London Times	Adam Nathan reports on the release of British plane spotters from a Greek prison, where they were held on charges of espionage for 37 days, fed only cold food except for one meal of cabbage soup.
12/16/01 Tulsa World	Danielle Arnet reports on 14 rimmed "Rockefeller pattern" soup plates selling at auction for a cool $27,065.
12/15/01 BBC	At 3:30 pm, on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, Afghan Balkh radio announced that Taliban and Al Qaeda had been "destroyed forever" and followed it with a song called "Bring sweets and soup because the guests have come."
12/15/01 Daily Yomiuri	Hiroko Ihara reports on Sasayama's famous black soybeans, Kuromame, and notes the miraculous effect of adding citrus or vinegar to a soup of the beans, the acid turning them from thick black to a vivid pink.
12/15/01 New York Times	Amy Waldman reports on Iranian Shiites remembering the martyrdom of Imam Ali in 661 AD on the 21st day of Ramadan by cooking up vats of thick soup and taking it to friends and neighbors to break the Ramadan fast on that day in his name.
12/14/01 Associated Press	Victor Simpson reports that on the last day of Ramadan, Pope John Paul urged all peoples to join him in a one day fast to call for peace in this time of war and strife, the Pope himself only taking soup at midday to keep up his strength.
12/11/01 The GuardianForbes	Tom Service reviews Bill Viola's film set to Edgard Varese's Deserts, conducted by Esa-Pekka Solonen at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The film, which features a man at table in ultra slow motion eating soup, drinking water, and smashing a glass, is described as "not intrepreting music as a conventional narrative, but instead creating its own abstract logic though images of depopulated landscapes...[with] 3 electronic interludes...in which the film features a human presence."
12/10/01 Philadelphia Inquirer	Mike Bruton reports that St. Louis Ram Quarterback Mark Warner claims his soup commercials helped him deliver the 27-14 victory over the San Francisco 49ers this weekend.
12/10/01 Forbes	Quentin Hardy reports on food fantasy camps in the Napa Valley for amateur cooks, including a 5-hour, 17-course dinner opening with chestnut soup at The French Laundry.
12/6/01 Agence France Presse	The China Wildlife Conservation Association reports on China's huge appetite for snakes. More than 10,000 tons of snakes are eaten each year, mostly made into a thick soup. The Association fears the extinction of many kinds, specifically Fea's pit viper and the king cobra.
12/6/01 Agence France Presse	UN special envoy Alvara de Soto praises the lentil-vegetable soup as "spicy and delicious" during his productive meeting with Cypriot President Glafcos and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash on reunification issues.
12/6/01 Atlanta Journal and Constitution	Andrea Jones reports on a controversial school performance of "The 12 Days of Christmas," where the 3 French hens end up in the stock pot to make soup for the sick.
12/6/01 The Washington Post	Mike Allen reports on President Bush's appointment of former Governor Marc Racicot as Republican National Committee chairman, noting that their close relationship was forged in Austin over grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup during the post-election recount litigation in 2000.
12/6/01 AP State and Local Wire	Inmates of the Macon Country Jail have lodged a protest, claiming they're being starved with a dinner of just soup and a sandwich.
12/5/01 Jakarta Post	Muhammad Hamdan, chief cook at the Medan Great Mosque, prepares traditional soup porridge for travelers to break the fast each night during Ramadan. The soup tradition goes back to 1906, when Sultan Mahmud Ar Rasyid, the 9th sultan, instituted it. it's made of rice, meat, carrots, potatoes, shallots, leeks, cinnamon and other spices.
12/5/01 The New York Times	Florence Traficant reports on a Big Apple experimental dinner designed by two radical chefs, including bobbing for foie gras in a cold fish and seaweed soup and drinking dessert soup from baby bottles.
12/2/01 The New York Times	Virginia Groark reports on the aftermath of Ottilie Lundgren's anthrax death, with FBI agents calling the homes of people who had even anonymous contact with her. John Criscuolo was called on Thanksgiving Day as he was serving chicken soup to his 25 guests, asked by agents if they could go through his garbage. Turns out he used the same cleaning service as Mrs. Lundgren.
12/2/01 Sunday London Times	Philip Norman tells all in his life of Beatle George Harrison, including the time--depressed by the break up of the group and on tour with Eric Clapton as back up guitar--Harrison sent back the mushroom soup in a motorway cafeteria, afraid it might contain meat.
12/1/01 The Straits Times (Singapore)	A report by Taiwan's Next magazine claims that, for a price ($900/bowl), a Chinese soup can be bought made of aborted foetuses and placentae--supposed to serve as a sexual health tonic.