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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: December 2002)

Date Item
12/31/02
Associated Press		 Barbara Streisand decries exercising while chowing down on carrot soup.
12/31/02
Associated Press		 Barbara Streisand decries exercising while chowing down on carrot soup.
12/31/02
Center Daily Times (State College, Pennsylvania)		 Chris Arbutin claims Vietnam traditionally serves shark-fin soup on New Year's Day for good luck.
12/31/02
Montreal Gazette		 This newspaper lists "chunky soups" on its annual hip list.
12/31/02
New York Times		 Pfish fans, fueled by cold soup, crackers, and cheap cigarettes, gather at Madison Square Garden for the rock group's reunion concert.
12/31/02
Sun Sentinel		 Margo Harkas reports that Venzuelans are poised to eat lentil soup "for prosperity" and 12 peeled and seeded grapes "for wishes" on New Year's Day.
12/31/02
Washington Post		 Peter Finn reports on Germany's obsession on New Year's with the British film "Dinner for One," which features mulligatawny soup.
12/9/02
Newsweek		 George Will reports that musician Buck Owens began his career in Phoenix with Marty Robbins by "passing the soup bowl" at local honky tonks.
12/5/02
Pitch Weekly		 Robert Wilonsky reports on late night TV personality Andy Richter, who imagines in the interview that people with elevated tastes who go to diners would likely order "Commie fag soup."
12/5/02
London Times		 A factory worker in West London was scalded to death when a half ton of spinach soup exploded over him.
12/4/02
Daily Telegraph (London)		 Celia Hall reports on a survey that shows women in Scotland eat more soup than those in Central and Southwest England and in Wales.
12/4/02
Rocky Mountain News		 M. E. Sprengelmeyer reports on the recollections of Stu Russell, a 24-year-old sailor back in 1968 who was captured by North Koreans with the U.S.S. Pueblo during the Vietnam War and endured 11 months of captivity. He recalls his first meal of chicken soup after liberation was "the best meal of my life."
12/3/02
Accra Mail		 Goat soup is on the menu at the Accra Beer Festival this week in Ghana.