Soup and Bread

A community meal project based in Chicago

Soup cooks, Jan. 19

Soup cooks, Jan. 19

Technical difficulties (#$@$!% camera) have prevented the timely posting of tales from this week’s Soup & Bread, but trust me, it was great. Busy but not mobbed, delicious soups, nice people, only minor reheating issues […]

Jan, 14 · in Event Schedule

Around the Pot, part 1: Soup for (more than) sustenance

Five p.m. on a raw Tuesday night and the line outside All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Ravenswood already stretches down Wilson Avenue from the parish hall door to the corner. Tuesday is food distribution day […]

Jan, 09 · in Around the Pot

Black Bean Soup with Cumin Yogurt

From Anastasia Davies Hinschliff Serves 6 hungry people Says Anastasia: “I was first served this soup in Austin, Texas by the fabulous Molly O’Halloran.  It has become a running favorite in my house and my […]

Jan, 09
Doro Wett’s Up

Doro Wett’s Up

From Brian Ferguson/BigBite Catering Feeds a small clan This recipe is based on traditional recipes for doro wett (or “wat”), a chicken stew from Ethiopia traditionally made with a spicy clarified butter (niter kebbeh), chicken,  […]

Jan, 09
Soup cooks, Jan. 12

Soup cooks, Jan. 12

Here’s who we’ve got warming up for January 12: Art and Chelsea Jackson, of the blog — and soon-to-be bakery, Pleasant House Michael Slaboch, from archival record label Numero Group Christopher Sullivan, who is, thus far, […]

Jan, 07

About last night

This photo rather says it all. We had a stunning, record turnout for the start of Soup & Bread 2011. I don’t know how many people were packed into the soup line there, but my […]

Jan, 06

Soup&Bread 2011: It begins

The new year is upon us. Holy cr*p. But, before we bust out the Champagne (and, in my case, hit the road for a weekend in Wisconsin) let’s make it official: Soup & Bread starts […]

Dec, 29

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