1.   No previous experience is required although an interest in bus routes and cold soup would prove useful.

2.   She was the last down to the dining room, where the first course, a cold soup, was already laid.

3.   A blender is great for cocktails, milkshakes and cold soups.

4.   A couple of European cold soups have become commonplace on our shores.

5.   A savory cold soup is similarly flexible.

6.   A shot of lime brings out the spiciness in cold soup.

7.   A sweet cold soup, such as this, can serve as either an appetizer or a dessert.

8.   A velvety cold avocado soup is rich enough that a recipe for four serves six, though it needs a splash of lime to punch it up.