1.   A bland cucumber soup with lovely shrimp is refreshing for a bite or two, but turns tiresome.

2.   A cool cucumber soup was tart and revitalizing, with buttermilk, fresh dill and mustard seeds.

3.   A real cucumber soup has backbone.

4.   Boulud uses it in his cucumber yogurt soup.

5.   For either Asian or European cucumber soup, most of the time involved lies in chilling.

6.   For years, I was stuck on cucumber soups, cooked or from the blender, that had a smooth, creamy consistency.

7.   I ran through my recipes for cucumber soups and salads, then hit cucumber overload.

8.   On the lighter side was vernal cucumber soup enriched with a lemon-grass cream.

9.   The hostess served an icy white wine and a refreshingly cool cucumber soup.

10.   You can make it less of a mystery by using watermelon as a garnish, dropping tiny balls of watermelon and honeydew into, say, a cucumber soup.