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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    as a first course or main course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home

By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

Published 2025

  • About

Luc, who has leaned vegetarian since he was really young, used to snack on cherry tomatoes as a toddler. He loves anything tomato related, so we make tomato soup quite often. (He’s been known to eat four bowls in a sitting.) This is our simplest version—a hearty, rainy-day soup for the not-so-nice parts of summer. (For a lighter gazpacho-style tomato soup best served cold, see the version in The Cook’s Atelier, our first cookbook.) Since there are so few ingredients, it’s crucial tha