5. Carrot Gazpacho

Producing a pleasant, warm carrot soup, or even a cooked carrot soup served at room temperature or chilled, is easy because cooking increases the natural sweetness and moderates the sometime obnoxious crispness of the soup. Producing a cold carrot soup that has never been heated is problematic: Carrots are very crispy, even in very small pieces. Most people don’t relish a crunchy, cold soup. On the opposite end of the crunchy perspective, carrot juice could be served as soup, but that is ju