Soup Miscellany

Happiness is …. a benefit for Soup & Bread

Wrangling soup cooks and crock pots every winter is a lot of work — but thankfully it’s not yet a 24/7 job. This past month, in between doing other things that pay the bills, it ...

Feb, 14

Soup & Bread 2013: Your questions answered. Finally.

The next run of Soup & Bread starts January 2 — our fifth season of soup at the Hideout. And, if you are like us, you cannot believe we have been doing this for FIVE YEARS. ...

Nov, 28

Art and Soup, or Derrida Does Improv

“So your soup thing … is it, like, an art project?” I’m in New York for the week and this question, asked by a kind stranger, cracked me up – because for the last month ...

Jun, 08

Potluck Wednesdays, continued

So our whole crazy Potluck Wednesday idea started off with the biggest potluck of them all — our massive blowout to support the Garfield Park Conservatory on July 6. And then July 13 we had ...

Jul, 22

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

Soup & Bread in action

Northwestern journalism student Jessica Chou did a little video report on Soup & Bread earlier this winter; I just found it on her blog. Vanity compels me to note that she made me take off ...

Mar, 15

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