Patricia Solley - An Exaltation of Soups: The Soul-Satisfying Story of Soup, As Told in More Than 100 Recipes

Behind every book stand many hands, eyes, and, in this case, mouths. Thanks to Dave Bloom, who put me up to it. Thanks to my long-suffering children, Meg and Bill, who ate many bowls of soup along the way and lived to tell about it. Thanks to Art Meyer and Rita Rosenkranz, who saw a book in my website. Thanks to Nancy Manuszak, friend, editor, and cheerleader extraordinaire. And thanks to my editor, Carrie Thornton, and designer Lauren Dong, who shaped the final book with intelligence and grace.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material.

Blackwell Publishing: Gulistan 25 from Poems from the Persian by Saadi, translated by John Charles Edward Bowen. Copyright 1948 Basil Blackwell. Reprinted courtesy of Blackwell Publishing.

Rinjing Dorje: Uncle Tompa Makes the King Bark Like a Dog from Tales of Uncle Tompa by Rinjing Dorje. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Doubleday and Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents, Inc.: No. 33, Lady Night Song of Autumn excerpted from The Heart of Chinese Poetry by Greg Whincup. Copyright 1987 by Greg Whincup. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., and Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents, Inc. Permission to reprint outside North America arranged with the author.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Faber and Faber Ltd.: Excerpt from The Tollund Man from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 19661996 by Seamus Heaney. Copyright 1998. Titled Wintering Out in the UK. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Faber and Faber Ltd.

Stephen G. Gudgel: Mester dAmor by Joan Salvat-Papasseit, translated by Stephen G. Gudgel. Reprinted by permission of the translator.

Harcourt, Inc., the Estate of C. P. Cavafy, and The Random House Group Limited: In Church and A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen from The Complete Poems of Cavafy by C. P. Cavafy and translator Rae Dalven, published by Hogarth Press. Copyright 1961 and renewed 1989 by Rae Dalven. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc., the Estate of C. P. Cavafy, and The Random House Group Limited.

HarperCollins Publishers Inc.: A Skull from The Collected Poems, 19311987, by Czeslaw Milosz and translated by Robert Hass. Copyright 1988 by Czeslaw Milosz Royalties, Inc. Nikki-Rosa from Black Talk, Black Judgment, by Nikki Giovanni. Copyright 1968, 1970 by Nikki Giovanni. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

Houghton Mifflin Company and SH/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.: The Fury of Rainstorms from The Death Notebooks by Anne Sexton. Copyright 1974 by Anne Sexton. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company and SH/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

F. S. A. Majeed: The Five Principles from Muslim Songs for Children by F. S. A. Majeed. Copyright 1988 by Ze Majeed, Singapore. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Modern Library: Gay Feast from The Works of Alexander Pushkin by Alexander Pushkin, edited by Avraham Yarmolinksy. Copyright 1936 and renewed 1964 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Modern Library, a division of Random House, Inc.

Nina Mrose: Excerpt from The Search for Noodle Soup with Chicken in It by Nina Mrose, 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.

New Directions Publishing Corp.: The Young Mother from Selected Writings of Paul Valery by Paul Valery and Louis Varse. Copyright 1950 by New Directions Publishing Corp. What a Little Girl Had on Her Mind by Ibaragi Noriko from Women Poets of Japan by Kenneth Rexroth. Copyright 1977 by Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi. Numbers, IX by Constantino Suasnavar and Clair de Lune by Luis Pales Matos from Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry edited by Dudley Fitts, translated by Muna Lee de Munoz Marin. Copyright 1947 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Jerry Newman: Amazing Soup by Jerry Newman. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.: Excerpt from Cajun Night Before Christmas by Trosclair, illustrated by James Rice. Copyright 1973, 2001. Reprinted by permission of the licenser, Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

Peter Pauper Press, Inc: Excerpt from a poem from Fruits of the Earth by Andr Gide, translated by B. A. Lenski. Copyright 1969 by Peter Pauper Press. Oblivion from Verlaine: Poems by Paul Verlaine, translated by Jacques Leclerq. Copyright 1961 Peter Pauper Press. Reprinted by permission of Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America: Pan Tadeusz from Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America by Adam Mickiewicz, translated by Watson Kirkconnell. Copyright 1962, 1981 by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. Reprinted by permission of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, 208 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Prague Post: Waggismania by Eva Munk from the Prague Post (December 23, 1998). Reprinted by permission of the Prague Post.

Princeton University Press: Mount of Olives from Selected Poems of Tudor Arghezi by Tudor Arghezi. Copyright 1976 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.

Ronnie Reed: Starving Artist Soup by Ronnie Reed. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Alan Rems: Pesach Eve in Our Little Shtetl by Hinde Binkovitz-Wiener, translated by Alan Rems. The story originally appeared as part of a collaborative effort with the Yizkor Book Project on the website of Jewish Gen, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the translator.

Hardie St. Martin: The Meaning of Soup by Gabriel Celaya, translated by Hardie St. Martin and Robert Mezey. Reprinted by permission of Hardie St. Martin.

Fenyvesi Sandor: In Praise of Bouillon by Berda Jzsef, translated by Fenyvesi Sandor. Reprinted by permission of the translator.

Scribner and A.P. Watt Ltd.: A Prayer for My Son from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, Revised by W. B. Yeats, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1928 by The MacMillan Company, copyright renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group and A.P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of Michael B. Yeats.

Shambhala Publications, Inc.: Two haiku poems from Narrow Road to the Interior by Matsuo Bash, translated by Sam Hamill. Copyright 1998 by Sam Hamill. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, www.shambhala.com.

Louis Simpson: A Story About Chicken Soup by Louis Simpson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Henry Taylor: Canticle of Created Things by Francis of Assisi, translated by Henry Taylor, from An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards by Henry Taylor. Copyright 1972 by Henry Taylor. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Thy Tran: Excerpt from Fish Sauce by Thy Tran, from the Washington Post (January 29, 2003, F01). Reprinted by permission of the author.

University of California Press: Ode to Conger Chowder from Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda, translated/edited by Peden, Margaret Sayers, one ode, English translation of Conger Chowder. Copyright 1990 by Regents of the University of California, Fundacin Pablo Neruda. Reprinted by permission of the Regents of the University of California and the University of California Press.

University of Minnesota Press: Slightly adapted version of Recipe for Meatball and Dumpling Soup from Scandinavian Feasts: Celebrating Traditions Throughout the Year by Beatrice Ojakangas. Copyright 1992 by Beatrice Ojakangas. (University of Minnesota Press, 2001). Reprinted by permission of the University of Minnesota Press.