PRIMORDIAL SOUP Soup myths Berry soup and the Legend of the Thunder Pipe How soup was made salt in China How Anishinaabeg hero Nanaboozhoo discovered wild rice soup in North America Soup fables Customer with Fly in Soup Meets High Tech Support Waiter The Tale of Prince Bálint and Aphrodisiac Soup 'Twas THE-GREAT-WHO Soup Before Christmas The Emperor of China and Bird's Nest Soup Jamaican Tiger Soup Aesop's The Fox and the Stork Aesop's The Man and the Satyr Soup and Minnie Mouse Boucle d'Or et Les Trois Ours--en français Goldilocks Gets the Slammer Little Bear and Birthday Soup Bantu Eyeball Soup Soup moral tales Yehá (Moroccan name for Nasrudin) and the Soup Pots Nasrudin and the Wedding Soup Nasrudin and the Duck Soup Briar Peter succeeds in spite of poisoned potato soup A Hungarian folktale of King Matias and A Dog Who Doesn't Eat His Spoon Cabbage Soup, or When Will the Monk Return? The Hungry Man from the Burmese Hills Stone Soup Sopa de Piedras, a Spanish version of "Stone Soup" with 3 soldiers in the teaching role. The Case of the Contested Soup Swedish Nail Soup Lentil Soup Mexicali Soup Tale 18: Of the Woman Who Poured the Soup into the Judge's Sack Soup fantasies "Veggie Soup" The Soup Bone Alice's Adventures with Pig and Pepper Soup Soup for Supper Teeny-Tiny and the Soup Bone True soup confessions Nina Mrose recounts a bizarre chicken soup cure in London. Laura tells how she was soup manipulated by her boyfriend. Maggie Fex, RN, describes the Kleenex soup she made to dose her husband after chemotherapy treatments Maggie Fex tells about The Black Bean Soup of Love Artist Judith Forrest humorously recalls Graveyard Soup as a staple in a large English household in the 1950s Holocaust survivor recalls Oskar Schindler's use of soup at munition factories Ronnie Reed of Worthington, Ohio, loses weight and regains his true love through The Starving Artist Soup Grandpa Solomon's Japanese matzo ball soup wows post World War II Texans The amazing story of cartoonist Sidney Harris' chicken soup with unborn eggs Opera tenor Enrico Caruso describes the greasy soup of the U.S. Army	§ Home § Search § Any comments? § SOUP TALES or, Ecce Soup, what man hath wrought WROUGHT SOUP Poetic soup 20th century poet Charles Simic's "Soup" of life 15th century Bektashi mystic poet Kaygusuz Abdal's "Petition" Jem Poster misses the comfort of soup in "Brought to Light" Günter Grass watches the soup blown out of his hands as a young German tank soldier Gary Snyder's "How to Make Stew in the Pinacate Desert: Recipe for Locke & Drum" [close enough--great Beat poem!] Poetry of the Beats: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Creeley, Ferlinghetti, & Meltzer "Pan Tadeusz" and its ecstatic rendering of Polish bigos, by Adam Mickiewicz "I am a Lutheran" by Garrison Keillor, featuring cream of mushroom soup "The Fury of Rain Storms" by Anne Sexton Cajun Night Before Christmas by "Trosclair," featuring gumbo "Recipe for Bouillabaisse" by Joseph Mery "The Gourmet's Love-Song" by P.G. Wodehouse "Salvador Dali" by hipster Richard Brautigan "Ode to Conger Chowder" by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda "Amazing Soup" by Canadian poet and novelist Jerry Newman An over-the-top Hungarian poem A húsleves dicsérete, "In praise of bouillon", by poet Berda József Alexander Pope's "Receipt to make Soup" Louis Simpson's "A Story about Chicken Soup" Anon. Matsuo Basho's Haiku Tatiana Bik's "Oh Life" Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" Robert Crawford's "Scotch Broth" Heinrich Hoffman's "Story of Augustus" Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" Carolyn Kiser's "Mud Soup" Carl Sandburg's "Cornhuskers" Siegfried Sassoon's "The Old Huntsman" John Taylor's "The Great Eater of Kent" William Makepeace Thackeray's "Bouillabaisse" Thomas Tusser's "500th points..." Theatrical soup Kakushi-Danuki ("Hiding the Badger")--a comic Kyogen from Japanese Noh theater Aristophanes' The Frogs Aristophanes' Lysistrata Aristophanes' Plutus Emilio Carballido's Te Juro, Juano, Que Tengo Ganas Molière's Les Femmes Savantes Novel soup Victor Hugo sets Jean Valjean up for a fall with the Bishop's soup in Les Miserables Ian McEwan describes the soup-snorting consequences of mischievous children at table in Atonement Rabelais describes Gargantua's soup etiquette, among other things Frank McCourt learns the meaning of soup in 'Tis Michael Crichton explores the dreaded Anglo-Saxon "soup illness" in Eaters of the Dead Thomas Harris explores Dr. Lecter's soup aesthetic in Hannibal Saul Bellow fusses with the comfort of chicken soup in Ravelstein Herman Melville's tragically consequenced spilled soup in Billy Budd John Lanchester's over-the-top fish chowders in The Debt to Pleasure Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Benjamin Disraeli's Tancred Théophile Gautier's Le Capitaine Fracasse Willa Cather's Death Comes to the Archbishop Bryce Courtenay's The Potato Factory Louise Erdrich's the Antelope Wife F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise Keri Hulme's The Bone People James Joyce's Ulysses William Kennedy's Billy Phelan's Greatest Game William Kennedy's The Flaming Corsage Amin Maalouf's The Rock of Tanios Herman Melville's Moby Dick Marcel Proust's Jean Santeuil Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina Storied soup "Vendetta Soup" H. H. Munro's "The Chaplet" (Saki) Alphonse Daudet's "Cheese Soup" Max Beerbohm's "Maltby and Braxton" Ivan Turgenev's "Mumu" Inaha Saikaku's "The Case of the Poisoned Miso Soup" Samim Kocagöz' "Dry Beans" Yuri Koval's "The Knifer" Ferenc Sánta's "Sokan Voltunk" ("Too Many of Us") Ivan Turgenev's "Shchi" P. G. Wodehouse's "Strychnine in the Soup" Rex Stout's "Fer-de-lance" et al.	JUST-THE-FACTS SOUP Soup around the world Scientific studies of soup and diets Proverbs, jokes, and legislation Alice B. Toklas, The Transmigration of Gazpacho Medieval soup customs Chinese soup customs French soup customs Greek soup customs Hungarian soup customs Italian soup customs Japanese soup customs Persian (Iranian) soups customs Portuguese soup customs Slovenian soup customs Vietnamese soup customs Historical soupnotes Dilligrout soup, coronation soup of English kings Robert E. Lee's last soup: Beef tea...and French novelist Alphonse Daudet's last soup. What were confederate and union soldiers fed? Soup, of course--emphasis on beans. Monsieur lashes out when brother Louis XIV splashes his wig with soup 1846 cannibalism of the Donner Party? Made into soup. At the Easter 1916 Irish uprising, grievously wounded James Conolly disdains soup on his deathbed that was manufactured with 'scab labour.' The call goes out for soup in the wake of the terrorist attack on NYC's World Trade Center. Joseph Stalin and poison soup. Unserved soup at a segregated restaurant in the 40s. Homemade soups with Vladimir and Ljudmila Putin. Allen Ginsberg's Last Soup...at a museum near you. Grisly soup stories from the Pearl Harbor bombing of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania Who invented soup? It was Neolithic man (and woman) Lewis and Clark survive expedition to the Pacific coast with 193 pounds of "portable soup" Indira Ghandi wows Japanese Prime Minister with her soup insight Swedish King Erik, whose poisoning by pea soup in 1550 by his brother Johan was put to music by K.A. Nikander and Otto Lindblad in the 19th century. Soup among the Seminoles Citizen saves Geneva with bean soup Lady Curzon saves British Civilization with turtle soup Soup sabotage and the FBI George Parmentier saves France with potato soup North Korean loyalty embodied in soya soup diet Soup on the R.M.S. Titanic The Dangers of Soup A miscellany of historical soup snapshots--as soup was used in the poisoning of a Bulgarian King, by British officers during the Indian Mutiny, the French invasion of the Netherlands in 1796, the Boer War, cannibals, Popes, Jamestown colonists, Louis XI's Court, Al Capone, the Sistine Chapel, Lapplanders, American nouveau riche, and chefs in the Middle Ages. Then there was Lady Caroline Lamb leaping naked out of an enormous soup tureen.... Soup sentiments From Nuts to Soup, where Will Rogers skewers a theater critic who questions his soup etiquette S. A. Belzer retraces Hemingway's steps to Hostal Burguete, favored soupery of Papa and Jake Barnes Soup obsessions of the famous: Mark Twain, Arturo Toscanini, George Santayana, Maestro Kurt Masur, Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, and Marilyn Monroe Pithy soup reflections by famous chefs, journalists, writers, aristocratic snobs, composers, scientists, psychologists, jazz musicians, you name it.