| Date |
Item |
5/13/05
London Daily Mail |
Paul Harris reports on the world's most expensive soup--Buddha Jumps Over the Wall--selling for GBP 108 or $208/bowl. Made over a 5-day period, it has abalone, fish stomach, ginseng, Japanese flower mushroom, shark's fin, scallop and sea cucumber in a special broth seasoned with more ginseng and Tong Tong Cho herb. |
5/12/05
London Guardian |
Tim Radford reports on vacations, costing $2M per person, on Russia's sector of the International Space Station--where you have to knead your soup in a bag to make it runny enough to suck through a nozzle. |
5/12/05
L.A. Times |
Mark Sachs reports on "American Idol" maker Randy Jackson describing a typical day off after the country club: Sometimes I'll have just the soup...then we'll go shopping. |
5/11/05
Chicago Tribune |
Rick Morrissey reports that baseball great Sammy Sosa, often out on injuries, is considered by fans as a soup-and-sandwich guy in a T-bone world. |
5/11/05
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
Jackie Hutcherson reports from Aldesford, England, on watercress soup--reputed since the 17th century to cleanse the blood and to restore a youthful bloom to women. |
5/9/05
Hull Daily Mail |
V-E Day 60th Anniversary was celebrated across East Yorkshire with parades, parties, services, spam sandwiches, and soup. |