Soups are just water with added value.
But they are far from humble.
Soups are the noble voices of distinctly different countries in liquid form; steaming bowls of symbolism; spoonfuls of culture, to be sipped and swallowed.
Soups come from what is in season, and from a long tradition of ‘making do’.
Soup is simple, natural, functional, and full of common sense.
You know how mothers and grandmothers insist that soup wards off colds and flu?
Well, of course it does, because you stay at home in order to eat their soup, instead of whipping out in the wind and rain to buy some pathetic form of take-out food.