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Soup Peddler's Slow and Difficult Soups: Recipes And Reveries

(PB )

by:
Ansel, David

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Product Details:

PB :

208 Pages

Publisher:

Ten Speed Press

Pub. Date:

Jul 19, 2005

Photos:

Black and White Illustrations

Our Part #:

07691

ISBN-10:

1580086519

ISBN-13:

9781580086516

Description:

With just a custom-made yellow bike, a used bike trailer, and a few two-quart containters of homemade gumbo, David Ansel began peddling soup to his friends and neighbors in the close-knit community of Bouldin Creek in Austin, Texas. Many flat tires and gallons of soup later, his delivery route has grown from 17 soup subscribers, or soupies, to more than 700 and counting.

In Slow and Difficult Soups, Ansel (aka the Soup Peddler) ladles out generous bowlfuls of some of the most delicious and lovingly seasoned soups you'll ever taste. This heart- and belly-warming illustrated memoir is an offbeat homage to the art, science, and joy of soup, offering a utopian vision of a community brought together through their love of spoon-lickin' comfort food. The Soup Peddler shares humorous stories about the eccentric folks who populate Bouldin Creek, along with classic and exotic creations like South Austin Chili, Smoked Tomato Bisque, Chompy-Chomp Black Bean Soup, and Bouillabaisse Marseillaise. A taste of simpler times in our modern fast-food nation, Slow and Difficult Soups is a rousing reminder of our basic need to connect our food--and those who cook, deliver, and slurp it.

Occasional colorful language dots the anecdotes as we meet a cross-dressing mayoral candidate, a radical coterie of plant liberators, a scheming ice cream man, and Alex the Wonder dog, among others.

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