Around The Pot

Zuppa e Pane: Milano

We are still sorting out just exactly how this happened, but Soup & Bread is going to … MILAN. On Friday, September 4, as part of “Chicago Week” at Expo Milano 2015, Chicago chefs Jason Hammel […]

Aug, 27

Soup & Bread 2015: It’s a wrap

First things first: There is NO SOUP & BREAD today (April 1). No foolin’. Our final soup of the 2015 season took place March 25 and it was a doozy. Many many thanks to all […]

Apr, 01

S&B in the field: Association House

So, one of our goals this year is to get out of the house — or, bar — to go see how the organizations Soup & Bread serves are coping with this grim and grueling […]

Feb, 05

Soup & Bread (& Pie): The Last Soup

Last Wednesday, after a particularly long (and fun) Soup & Bread, Sheila and I were hauling our Rubbermaid bins of gear back up to their secret Hideout hideout when, as we paused to Jenga them […]

Apr, 09

The cookbook has left the building

It’s true. We shipped it off to Agate yesterday. Hooray! And now … we wait. The book’s not due out until November. But we’ve got some other projects on our plate in the meantime, though. […]

Jun, 07

Around the Pot, part 4: Re-Thinking Soup

While Upton Sinclair was researching The Jungle, the muckraking 1906 novel that exposed in grisly detail the dangers of the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the last century, he often stopped on Halsted Street […]

Mar, 22

Around the Pot, part 3: Soups for swapping

It’s really hard to make soup for one. A simple truth, sure. But Knox Gardner has turned that bare fact into a movement. In 1999, Gardner, tired of being stuck eating his way through the […]

Mar, 03

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