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As for Soupsong, it's featured in:

• Carla Wheeler's Press-Enterprise (California) article, 7/31/02
• Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree, as consolation for server break in service, 6/16/02ff
• 6/6/02
• USA Today's Living Web Guide Hot Site, 6/4/02
  
• Candy Sagon's "Souper Woman," Washington Post, 5/15/02; Lexington Herald, 5/26; Newsday.com, 5/29; The Cleveland Plain Dealer
• St. Petersburg Times' "this web site cooks," 1/9/02
• Emazing.com's Cooking Tip of the Day, 10/16/01
• Webshots' "Cool Site of the Day," 9/12/01
• Alan Saunder's The Comfort Zone, on Australian Radio National, 7/28-29/01
• St. Luis Obispo Tribune (California), 5/9/01
• The Calgary Herald, 4/29/01
• The Fort Worth Star, 4/18/01
• The Guardian, 4/16/01
• The Atlanta Journal, 1/25/01, 4/15/99, 2/11/99
• Talk 650 KSTE, the Armstrong & Getty Show, 1/25/01
• Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, 1/17/01
• Eric Shackle's "SoupSong and SoupWorks: Super Soup sites at Consumer Chef, 1/01
• Topeka Capital Journal, 1/10/01
• QuirkyWorld.com's "Decidedly Odd"
• Sunday Herald Sun, 10/22/00
• European women's ivenus.com on 9/27/2000
• MyFoodDirectory.com's top gourmet soup site
• Netscape's Cool Siting #4 on 8/23/2000--but dinged on "presentation."
• The Bottom Line, 7/15/2000, a Kiplinger Bottom Line Personal Web Pick
• Homework on WorldWide Learn's Cooking Classes
• Irish Public Radio's Lovebites, as an interview, with Eamonn Ó Cathain, producer Kitty Cullen, 7/00
• Computer Times Interesting Sites, 5/00
• Newsbytes, Melbourne, Australia, 4/4/00
• The Hersch Web Site Observer, 3/27/00
• Librarians' Index to the Internet, New This Week, 3/13/00
• 2-Star Web's Best Site, Encyclopedia Britannica.com
• Q Magazine, March 2000
• Internet News, broadcast by Charles Bowen, 3/2/2000
• Kitchenlink
• Minneapolis Star Tribune online, 3/2/2000
• GourmetSpot
• Vancouver Sun "Hot Sites," 1/27/2000 (syndicated in Canadian papers The Leader Post, The Star Phoenix, and The Standard)
• NewsTalk, 1530 KFBK, Sacramento, California, 1/17/2000
• Netsurfer Digest, 1/11/2000
• Clair O'Mahony, for "Google"
• Karen Potter, for BRIEFME e-zine
• Family Times, Fall 1999 & Summer 1999
• BBC Radio's Steve Wright's Web Picks, 11/17/99
• The Spokane Spokesman-Review, 2/17/99,
  Rick Bonino's The Fresh Sheet
• ABC's of Parenting 3-Star site, 9/16/98.
• The New York Times
  Dining Out Section, 8/26/98,
  S. A. Belzer's "Bits and Bytes"
• Arizona Republic, 6/3/98,
  Baltimore Sun staff writer
  Gerri Kobren.
• WYC Cuisine Gold site.
• Food & Wine Site of the Day, 3/3/98.
• Los Angeles Times Pick on 1/15/98
• Spokesman-Review
  (Spokane, WA)
  Rick Bonino's
  "Fresh Sheet," 1/14/98
• Mac's Pick
  (Aukland, New Zealand)
  10/14/97 & 1/18/00.
• Washington Post, 10/8/97.
• Yahoo Pick of the Week
  10/6/97.

LATE-BREAKING SOUPS...
and other things to whistle about

NEW SITE FEATURES: Check out the new Soupsong: Vendetta Soup... plus a whole archive of soup jokes. Also visit the expanded SoupTale section, featuring myths, fables, moral tales, fantasies, poems, plays, novels, stories, quotations, jokes, legislation, historical watersheds...plus soup customs from different countries! For short cuts, use the all-inclusive site search engine. This last beauty is thanks to the wizardry of Grover, who houses this site.

• Lenten Ukrainian borshch
• Authentic Ukrainian borshch
• Authentic Russian rassol'nik
• Corsican aziminu fish soup
• Turkish cacik
• Iced summer shrimp soup
• Rasam
• Velouté de tomates
• Sybaritic fennel soup
• Saffroned pine nut soup of love
• Almond Aphrodisiac soup
• Corsican bean and leek soup (Minestra di fasgiolu e di porri)
• Corsican garlic soup (Minestra incu l'agliu)
• Chilean/Spanish Sopa de pescado y mariscos
• Kleenex soup
• Capri's Minestra di Natale
• New Zealand's Toheroa soup
• Maggie's black bean soup of love
• Tomato-corn chowder
• Slovenian wild mushroom soup
• Slovenian pasta fizol

• H. H. Munro's (Saki's) haute cuisine chef drowns a violinist in soup in "The Chaplet"
• Dilligrout soup, coronation soup of English kings
• Poet Charles Simic questions the making of "Soup"
• Speechwriter Nina Mrose humorously recalls Noodle soup...with a chicken in it as her unlikely London cure
• Alphonse Daudet relates a scenery-chewing classical actor to his cozy aprés theatre bowl of Cheese soup
• New historical soupnotes include Lady Caroline Lamb leaping naked out of a soup tureen for the Prime Minister's birthday, and the last soups of Robert E. Lee and Alphonse Daudet
• Customer with Fly in Soup Meets High Tech Support Waiter
• Ian McEwan describes the soup-snorting consequences of mischievous children at table in Atonement
• Jem Poster misses the comfort of soup in "Brought to Light"
• Anglo-Saxon warriors beware "the soup illness" in Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead
• Günter Grass poetically reflects on having the soup blown out of his hands as a young German tank soldier
• NYC radio reporter Tom Note describes firsthand the call for soup in the aftermath of the terrorist attack against New York's World Trade Center
• The Emperor and the Cook: The Story of Bird's Nest Soup
• Saul Bellow fusses about the comfort of chicken soup in Ravelstein.
• Poetry of Beat Soup: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Creeley, & Meltzer
• Soup customs around the world: French, detailing the wisdom of Colette, a 1920s cook in the French countryside; Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, and Hungarian.

• Jerry Newman contributes Yiddish folk songs about potatoes
• Nikolai Nekrassov's The Salt Song
• P'u Sung-ling's The Magic Pear Tree
• Cucumbers, with a poignant poem about just one by Nazim Hikmet
• Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's Odas elementales: Ode to an Artichoke and Ode to a Chestnut on the Ground and Ode to Tomatoes and Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market and Ode to the Lemon and Ode to Maize and Ode to Salt
• Turnips and Rutabagas, with the accent on the latter and its link to the totally over-the-top Advanced Rutabaga Studies Institute.
• Mushrooms, expanded to include a Russian nursery rhyme that identifies the edible ones
• Milk...and how it gave Switzerland the Kuhriehen song to call the cows home
• Watermelon...and a click-through Sufi teaching story in which a watermelon contributes to Deep Knowledge
• Onions, expanded--including a click through Sufi teaching story that dramatizes the impact of a Dervish peeling onions

• How to unsalt a soup