Soup Club is a unique book that focuses on the healing benefits of both soup and community. After the author (a writer from Seattle) was diagnosed with brain cancer , she told friends she was craving homemade soup, and found soup on her doorstep each day for months. After being given a year to live, she has now been cancer-free for 5 years. And retains gratitude for both community – and soup.#
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So Caroline decided to start a weekly soup club, delivering her own original healthy soup recipes to her friends’ porches. Soon word spread, and the area morphed into a large community of soup enthusiasts, inspired by her story.
Unlike any other recipe book, this soup book includes artwork, photography and even short poems from her community, all in celebration of vegan soups! Each soup can be made on the hob or in an InstantPot, and all recipes are also gluten-free. Learn to make:
- Catalan chickpea stew with spinach
- Jamaican pumpkin & red pea soup
- Split pea soup with roasted kale
- West African vegetable stew
- Kale farinata
- Broccoli & rice soup
- Pumpkin coconut soup with curry leaves
- Teddy’s black bean soup
Caroline’s inspiring story that began with cancer and ended with community, compelled me to make soup for others. What better way to thank people for their kindness. And the recipes do work! Deborah Madison
Caroline Wright is a cookbook writer, former TV producer and veteran of Martha Stewart Omnimedia. Her terminal brain cancer diagnosis in 2017 shifted her career to focus on her health and young sons, leading her to write the book Lasting Love (about enduring love after death). She lives in Washington, USA.
If you like making soup, invest in a stick blender, as it saves all the faffing around with washing jug blenders. When buying a new electrical appliance, UK says the store has to take the old one back. So take the dusty broken jug blender back to the store you buy a new one from, and it will be recycled on for you.
Also invest in Souper Cubes. Made from silicone, just pour leftover soup in, then freeze and the soup is ready to thaw and cook, whenever you want it.
