The Soupmaker's Kitchen: How to Save Your Scraps, Prepare a Stock, and Craft the Perfect Pot of Soup

The award-winning chef invites you into her kitchen to share her time-tested techniques for making dozens of soups, bisques, chowders, and purées.

Soup, beautiful soup—the most basic of cooked foods, the universal cure-all, a nourishing way to use small amounts of food or leftovers, a dish that can always be stretched to feed more . . .

From the basic foundation of stocks to the older, European-inspired concoctions, such as Zuppa Pavese and French Onion Soup, Aliza Green outlines the origins, ingredients, and steps necessary to create a warm and satisfying culinary experience every time. Explore more than 100 soup recipes, plus variations on each one, from all over the world, and in every style of soup you might want to eat. Recipes include:

- Hungarian Woodlands Mushroom Soup with Sour Cream and Paprika - Tuscan Pappa al Pomodoro - Senegalese Peanut and Yam Puree with Ginger - Provencal Soupe au Pistou with Savoy Cabbage, White Beans, and Leeks - Wild Salmon Chowder with Sweet Corn & Gold Potatoes - Tom Kha Gai (Thai Chicken Coconut Soup) - Cream of Cauliflower with Nutmeg and Chives - Kerala Red Lentil Soup (vegan) - Vietnamese Pho Soup with Beef Brisket - Caribbean Callalou Soup with Crabmeat and Coconut

Accompanied by Steve Legato's clearly detailed, full-color photography, your soup making success will be effortless. Inside you'll find a wide-ranging collection of recipes to suit every palate including seafood, poultry, pork, beef, vegan and vegetarian formulas, and a wealth of information you will use over and over again in your culinary endeavors.

© 2013 Quarry Books (Ebook): 9781610587754

Release date

Ebook: 1 July 2013