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• Issue #63: LAST SOUPSONG IN PARIS

• ALL THE e-SOUPSONGS FIT TO PRINT
  
• LATE BREAKING SOUPS, etc.
  
• SOUP GOES TO THE MOVIES
  
• FAVES OF THE STARS
  
• SOUP TALES
  
• DEATHBED SOUPS
  
• SOUP JOKES
  
• SOUP CUSTOMS
  
• MUSICAL SOUP
  
• SOUP IN ART
  
• THEATRICAL SOUP
  
• SHAKESPEARE FOOD FRENZIES
  
• FOOD TALES
  
• HOT SOUPS


• COLD SOUPS


• SOUP AS A MEAL


• SOUP AS A COURSE
  
• INTERNATIONAL SOUPS
  
• OCCASIONAL SOUPS
  
• MEAT SOUPS
  
• CRY FOWL SOUPS
  
• SEAFOOD SOUPS
  
• STRICTLY VEGETABLE
  
• FRUITY SOUPS


• SOUP BASICS
  
• SOUP ETIQUETTE
  
• SOUP SENTIMENTS
  
• SOUP IN THE NEWS
  
• ANCIENT FOOD NEWS
  
• CHOWDERHEAD ROCK
  
• A CAUTIONARY TALE
  
• TRUE SOUP CONFESSIONS
  
• SOUP IN THE NEWS--Suspended til Parisian Soupsong gets her soupgroove back
  
• AMERICAN MEASURES?
  
• PRIVACY SOUPSONG

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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Why do the New England Patriots eat their soup on a plate?
ANSWER OF THE DAY: Because bowls make them choke!!!
--Thanks to Ryan Campbell for a timely Superbowl Souper Joke, 2008

"Beautiful soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup"

[Hear 12-year-old Michael Bannett perform Lewis Carroll's "The Mock Turtle's song"]

For centuries, soup has been the first resort of a special dinner and the last resort of weary providers with tired vegetables and hungry children. And it's a lot more than that. Thackeray has versified on it; Queequeg has rhapsodized about it; George Santayana has waxed downright Proustian for its sake. In these pages, dear readers, I would sing a song of soup to fill your bellies and satisfy your souls.