Basic Basics Soups Handbook

The definitive guide to one of the world's most popular dishes. Marguerite Patten draws on her years of experience to bring together recipes for one of the great comfort foods: soup. Hot soups are warming in cold weather and cold soups are refreshing in the heat. Soup can also be made from every kind of ingredient. This guide contains recipes for every occasion and soups from around the worldfrom vichyssoise and minestrone to hot and sourand covers all the information you need to make soups of perfect flavor and consistency, including stocks which are the secret of many good soups.