Beautiful Soup

There is nothing quite like soup. It is seductive. It embraces your entire home with its heady aroma, and lovingly entices friends and family into the kitchen. Nourishing and comforting, it is beloved by both young and old.

A most versatile food, soup is the perfect way to balance a menu. Serve a light, appetite-stimulating consommé or bouillon to elegantly complement a rich main course, or if the main course is light, serve a more substantial puréed vegetable soup to round out the meal. Creamed soups, of course, hold a place in menus that don’t feature cream sauces. Chilled fruit soups and gazpachos begin summer meals on a refreshingly festive note and still leave room for more. And sturdy, heartwarming vegetable, beef, or cheese soups—too filling to serve as starters—stand on their own as main dishes.