Ready, steady, cook! The blog recipe contest…
September 12th, 2008
At 8 o’clock this morning, Greenwich meant time, it became possible to email entries to Blog From Italy and enter the recipe contest to find the best Italian autumn soup.
A Soup is a Soup 
Understand just what constitutes soup in Italy is not all that easy. Many innocent tourists order ‘zuppa’, and what they will find in front of them is a steaming bowl of liquid. Great! Looks like soup, tastes like it too. End of story.
No, sorry, not quite. You see what many visitors to Italy may overlook is that there are other soups on the menus too, it’s just that Italians do not refer to them as soups. The words they are more likely to use are ‘minestra’, ‘brodo’, ‘veluto’ and ‘crema’.
My apologies if I’m ladling on so many soup related terms, but then Italy has never been known for its simplicity. If you have not gone potty by now, then proceed to the next paragraph. Otherwise, go make soup.
That is from Alex’ opening day post. When you read it, you will discover that there are so many more opportunities to be Italian and also be soup, that you may boil over with ideas. You can enter five recipes if you are that creative.
I heard taste testers talking via email yesterday about how excited they are to see what there will be. They expect a fall and winter full of tasty new soups to make, and when that cold and damp season begins, we’ll be ready to slurp them all down!
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1. Ruth | September 16th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
It is a great contest. Thanks for letting us know.
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