Soupe à la Déjeuner

Through much of France, soup is what is traditionally taken at lunchtime. In fact I should think that historically your average French peasant ate little other than soup. I was once reading a book called Wild Nettle Soup and it was then that I came to realise that in the mountains they baked all the bread for the forthcoming winter in October and then left it in the bottom drawer of a large chest where of course it hardened. This explains why, so ofte