Soup & Bread 2016: March 9

This week at Soup & Bread I learned that you can put parsnips, tomatoes, and beans all together in the same soup and it will be surprisingly delicious. I learned that Caribbean banana-peanut soup is possibly the must unattractive soup in the pantheon of soups — lumpy and beige and utterly untropical — and yet, and yet … it too is uncommonly tasty. That pickled Fresno peppers are a terrific addition to red lentil, and that Senegalese chicken soup is still stupendous even when the chicken is all gone and only the vibrant turmeric-loaded broth remains.

All of which is to say: we had some great soups this past week! And we hope to have recipes for those, and from last week, posted sometime soon. We also raised $663 for the Lincoln Park Community Shelter (whose volunteers brought trays loaded down with cupcakes and brownies) and all the food was gone by 7 pm. Sorry latecomers! Last week we had tons of leftovers?

Now: there are just four weeks left of Soup & Bread this season. Coming up on March 9 we have soups from:

Simon Tankard
Richard Stacewicz
Dan Miller
Local Foods
Tim Magner (Nature’s Farm Camp)
Jill Barron (Mana Food Bar)
Ethan Fischer (Central Pickling)
and students from Near North Montessori School

Our DJs next week are the tag team of Jimmy Langford and Thomas Dunning, and our beneficiary is the Chicago HELP Initiative. Bread, as ever, is donated by our friends at Publican Quality Bread. Don’t miss out!

And, hey, don’t forget to vote for Soup & Bread in the Chicago Tribune’s Reader’s Choice Dining Awards. Category: Best Food Spot (?) Where You’d Least Expect It. We don’t know what we win if we win, but we’re prepared to stuff the ballot box with the best of them. Hot Doug, you’re going down.

See you Wednesday!