Family Soups

For all of us, no matter where we come from, the soups we have had with our family as children and, later, as adults are those we return to with a special pleasure. I have many friends and I have enjoyed the soups that I have made for them and those that they have made for me; but the family soups still hold a special place for me, the soups of love.

I have been lucky in my family, my husband, the family that came before me, and the one that follows me. I cannot speak of all of them; but here are the most immediate and the soups that I associate with them.