https://soupsong.com/blog Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:04:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_224" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="All the makings of a great borshch"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_225" align="alignnone" width="359" caption="Enough to send you off carolling"][/caption] Way back in 1997, not long after I'd launched soupsong.com, Sándor Fenyvesi--air traffic controller at Budapest approach--contacted me over my website with this great recipe for borscht, which he'd acquired under ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=223 [caption id="attachment_218" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Yes, I'm a fan of urbanspoon.com"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_219" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Plus I make great soup"][/caption] Back in September, when I was hyperventilating over the beauty of my just one-year-old granddaughter Rosalind in Seattle, I got taken out to lunch by the urbanspoon.com guys, where daughter Meg had been ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=217 [caption id="attachment_193" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A toast to quick healing"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_196" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="French chicken soup will drink to that"][/caption] My Dad took an awful fall this past Friday night and split his hip bone in half.  Not something a former B-29 pilot likes to admit, even if he is an octogenarian+ ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=192 [caption id="attachment_181" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A humble version of Crème Crécy, but in a proud setting"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_182" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="View from the cafe, spiraling down the Pei pyramid into the heart of the old castle"][/caption] Such a miserable day. Cold rain coming down in buckets. Clearly time to execute my fave rainy ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=169 [caption id="attachment_120" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="atomium, still futuristic after all these years"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_121" align="alignnone" width="230" caption="waterzooie avec homard?"][/caption] "Want to go to Brussels this weekend?"  My friend Stu emailed, posing the question.  You know I did.    "Only if we can see the Atomium," I  banter back. "Deal." "AND that I get to eat Waterzooie, classic ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=119 [caption id="attachment_152" align="alignleft" width="203" caption="Le Bouillon Chartier"][/caption]    [caption id="attachment_154" align="alignnone" width="283" caption="Potage aux legumes"][/caption]  It's November 20 in Paris and the streets are littered with gigantic wine bottle balloons labeled Nouveau Beaujolais 2008.  "Come on," said Dominique, "let's meet at Bouillon Chartier for lunch." I love this place. It's hiding in an alley ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=147 [caption id="attachment_138" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Honoring Barbizon heroes on 11/10"][/caption] Leave the cold; enter pot au feu heaven It was a funny day, me deliberately leaving behind all the heavily "planned activities at US battlefield cemeteries for Veteran's Day" to strike out into the French countryside.  On such an autumn holiday I thought ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=129 [caption id="attachment_49" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sèvres Pot à oille standing tall in the Petit Palais"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_50" align="alignnone" width="234" caption="Madame de Pompadour surveys her lover Louis XV and her soupe domain"][/caption] Ahem, may I first say:  it's a great day to be an American. Okay, I promised you Madame de Pompadour, a Sèvres tureen, ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=45 [caption id="attachment_93" align="alignleft" width="154" caption="Soup in my sink"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_97" align="alignnone" width="250" caption="Soup getting close to my belly"][/caption]  It's a cold autumn night in Paris and I'm walking home with my new hairdo from Mickael at en a parté, thinking about the new post I'm about to make on Sevrès tureens, Madame ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=92 [caption id="attachment_84" align="alignleft" width="154" caption="Neolithic cuties from Ain Ghazal"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_83" align="alignnone" width="267" caption="Hisaa al adas bhamud"][/caption] Okay, this is my most shameless conjunction to date. This fabulous statue, dating back some 8,000 years and part of a family group at the Amman Archeological Museum, doesn't have anything at all to do ... https://soupsong.com/blog/?p=79