31.   Please, call the patient before you make the soup.

32.   Russians favor sour tastes, which might call for fermenting the beets before making the soup.

33.   Some give the stuff away to shelters, of course, but there are other things that can be done, like making soup with the parmigiana reggiano.

34.   Soup can be made a day or two ahead if covered tightly and refrigerated.

35.   The chilled orange soup is made of distressingly sour oranges.

36.   The Japanese make soup with soba noodles or with udon noodles.

37.   The leaves can be sauteed and tossed with pasta or used to make soup.

38.   The lemon and egg sauce added at the end makes the soup!

39.   The only thing that slows down making this soup is getting the chestnuts out of their shells.

40.   The only things she ever threw out were bones for the dogs, and she made soup with those before they got to them.