PRIMORDIAL SOUP
Soup myths
Soup fables
Soup moral tales
Soup fantasies
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SOUP TALES
or, Ecce Soup, what man hath wrought
WROUGHT SOUP
Poetic soup
- "Soup" by 20th century U.S. poet Carl Sandburg
- "The Meaning of Soup Is Lost" by 20th century Spanish poet Gabriel Celaya
- 20th century poet Charles Simic's "Soup" of life
- 15th century Bektashi mystic poet Kaygusuz Abdal's "Petition"
- Jem Poster misses the comfort of soup in "Brought to Light"
- Günter Grass watches the soup blown out of his hands as a young German tank soldier
- Gary Snyder's "How to Make Stew in the Pinacate Desert: Recipe for Locke & Drum" [close enough--great Beat poem!]
- Poetry of the Beats: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Creeley, Ferlinghetti, & Meltzer
- "Pan Tadeusz" and its ecstatic rendering of Polish bigos, by Adam Mickiewicz
- "I am a Lutheran" by Garrison Keillor, featuring cream of mushroom soup
- "The Fury of Rain Storms" by Anne Sexton
- Cajun Night Before Christmas by "Trosclair," featuring gumbo
- "Recipe for Bouillabaisse" by Joseph Mery
- "The Gourmet's Love-Song" by P.G. Wodehouse
- "Salvador Dali" by hipster Richard Brautigan
- "Ode to Conger Chowder" by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
- "Amazing Soup" by Canadian poet and novelist Jerry Newman
- An over-the-top Hungarian poem A húsleves dicsérete, "In praise of bouillon", by poet Berda József
- Alexander Pope's "Receipt to make Soup"
- Louis Simpson's "A Story about Chicken Soup"
- Anon.
- Matsuo Basho's Haiku
- Tatiana Bik's "Oh Life"
- Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"
- Robert Crawford's "Scotch Broth"
- Heinrich Hoffman's "Story of Augustus"
- Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
- Carolyn Kiser's "Mud Soup"
- Carl Sandburg's "Cornhuskers"
- Siegfried Sassoon's "The Old Huntsman"
- John Taylor's "The Great Eater of Kent"
- William Makepeace Thackeray's "Bouillabaisse"
- Thomas Tusser's "500th points..."
Theatrical soup
Novel soup
Storied soup
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JUST-THE-FACTS SOUP
A Question of Soup Etiquette
- Worldly wisdom, from Ancient to Modern, from Western to Eastern, and everything in between.
Historical soupnotes
- Soup proverbs, sayings, and even legislation
- Samuel Pepys takes soup...when there's nothing better around.
- Deathbed soups, including John Belushi, Captain Cook, Robert E. Lee, Marie Antoinette, Millard Fillmore, and many others.
- Lord Nelson uses a soup test to identify his sailors.
- Dilligrout soup, coronation soup of English kings
- What were confederate and union soldiers fed? Soup, of course--emphasis on beans.
- Monsieur lashes out when brother Louis XIV splashes his wig with soup...only to have the last laugh when his brother's bad dental work makes him blow his soup out of his nose. And how about the sad story, much later, of Napoleon III's Empress facing the fall of the empire with a bowl of cold soup?
- 1846 cannibalism of the Donner Party? Made into soup.
- At the Easter 1916 Irish uprising, grievously wounded James Conolly disdains soup on his deathbed that was manufactured with 'scab labour.'
- The call goes out for soup in the wake of the terrorist attack on NYC's World Trade Center.
- Joseph Stalin and poison soup.
- Unserved soup at a segregated restaurant in the 40s.
- Homemade soups with Vladimir and Ljudmila Putin.
- Grisly soup stories from the Pearl Harbor bombing of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania
- Who invented soup? It was Neolithic man (and woman)
- Lewis and Clark survive expedition to the Pacific coast with 193 pounds of "portable soup"
- Indira Ghandi wows Japanese Prime Minister with her soup insight
- Swedish King Erik, whose poisoning by pea soup in 1550 by his brother Johan was put to music by K.A. Nikander and Otto Lindblad in the 19th century.
- Soup among the Seminoles
- Citizen saves Geneva with bean soup
- Lady Curzon saves British Civilization with turtle soup
- Soup sabotage and the FBI
- George Parmentier saves France with potato soup
- North Korean loyalty embodied in soya soup diet
- Soup on the R.M.S. Titanic
- The Dangers of Soup
- A miscellany of historical soup snapshots--as soup was made by "Diggers" in California, used in the poisoning of a Bulgarian King, by British officers during the Indian Mutiny, and part of the French invasion of the Netherlands in 1796, the Boer War, cannibals, Popes, Jamestown colonists, Louis XI's Court, Al Capone, the Sistine Chapel, Lapplanders, American nouveau riche, and chefs in the Middle Ages. Then there was Lady Caroline Lamb leaping naked out of an enormous soup tureen....
Soup sentiments
- From Nuts to Soup, where Will Rogers skewers a theater critic who questions his soup etiquette
- S. A. Belzer retraces Hemingway's steps to Hostal Burguete, favored soupery of Papa and Jake Barnes
- Soup obsessions of the famous: Mark Twain, Arturo Toscanini, George Santayana, Maestro Kurt Masur, Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, and Marilyn Monroe
- Pithy soup reflections by famous chefs, journalists, writers, aristocratic snobs, composers, scientists, psychologists, jazz musicians, you name it.
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