1.   And fruit soups can double as desserts.

2.   And if you really want to be cool, ditch the Wheaties and wake up to a bowl of fruit soup.

3.   As an appetizer, a fruit soup piques the appetite without overwhelming the palate.

4.   A dessert of fruit soup comes with a corkscrew of caramelized sugar.

5.   But relief from the humid, sticky weather is only a bowl of chilled fruit soup away.

6.   Cooling fruit soups are studded with berries and crowned with icy sorbet.

7.   Fruit soup crowned with lavender sorbet arrived in a bowl made entirely of flower-filled ice.

8.   Gone are the fruit soups splashed with passion fruit or scented with lemon grass.

9.   I liked a fruit soup that looked like a reverse sunset, a mint green verbena ice-cream sun setting in a magenta wine-poached pear.

10.   In Europe, they are favored in cold summer fruit soups, in preserves and, lightly stewed, as a garnish to seared foie gras.