Soup and Bread

A community meal project based in Chicago

Soup and Bread takes a field trip

Hideout co-owner Katie Tuten and I toured the Greater Chicago Food Depository yesterday, along with several of Katie’s coworkers from her day job at Catholic Charities. (Katie kept introducing me to people as a “miscellaneous do-gooder,” […]

Feb, 26 · in Soup Miscellany
Shawn McClain’s Soup-Off

Shawn McClain’s Soup-Off

  CUSTOM HOUSE TO HOST FIRST-EVER ‘SOUP OFF’ TO BENEFIT THE GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY CHICAGO (February 20, 2009) – Spring Restaurant Group’s Executive Chef Shawn McClain is joining forces with Chicago’s top chefs for a Soup Off cook-off […]

Feb, 24 · in Soup Miscellany

Shorpa aadas and Marak bamia

From Mike Sula [Says Mike: These two Iraqi soups were made by Khawla Shuhayib, who doesn’t use recipes. They were adapted with a a little help from the Iraqi Family Cookbook by Kat Karim. A shorpa, according […]

Feb, 23
Guest soup chefs, February 25

Guest soup chefs, February 25

This week at Soup and Bread: — Cinnamon Cooper, Robyn Nisi, and the rest of the Drive Thru crew, with a Gapers Block trifecta of soups. — Columbia College film professor Dan Rybicky — Dietician […]

Feb, 22

Pain a la Ancienne

From Daniel Shumski [Says Daniel: “So I made two types of bread. Here’s the recipe for the better and more popular one. It is essentially the Pain a l’Ancienne recipe from Peter Reinhart‘s The Bread […]

Feb, 21

Mock Turtle Soup

  [The very hearty — and meaty — mock turtle soup evolved in England in the 18th-century as a stand-in for, yes, turtle soup. Turtle meat being hard to come by, then and now. Chuck […]

Feb, 20
Roasted vegetable stock

Roasted vegetable stock

From Chuck Sudo INGREDIENTS 1 large carrot, coarsely chopped 2 or 3 stalks of celery, coarsely chopped, including leafy ends 2 small zucchini, coarsely chopped 2 leeks, white and light green parts only, sliced in […]

Feb, 20

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