The 10 Soup Commandments
You don't need stock or broth, actually.
On a list of moments that feel primordially human — the kind of experience you could imagine sharing, mostly unchanged, with your ancestors from 100,000 years ago — there’s sharing stories around a campfire, collecting pretty shells on the beach, and cupping a warm bowl of soup in the palms of your hands. But over the course of those thousands of years, we have, of course, made things a little more complicated. Even something as intuitive as soup needs a few ground rules. While simmering the many many pots of beans and greens I’ve soup-ified this winter, I’ve established my own personal steamy manifesto, which is as follows:
