New Covent Garden Soup Company's Book of Soups

The New Covent Garden Food Co have produced hundreds of varieties of soup since its inception in 1988 using fresh, natural ingredients. They've learnt what works, what doesn't and their Book of Soups - New, Old and Odd Recipes provides a stunning array of soups that confirm to this description. Old favourites stand side by side with some decidedly odd and new soup recipes. The Book of Soups provides yet more sumptuous soups for you to experiment with at any time of year. I mentioned in my earlier review of Soups for all Seasons that my soup epiphany was at a dinner party when I was served a homemade Russian Vegetable soup. At first glance, it was rather ...  Read the complete review

Soup must be one of those things that anyone can make - after all, it's incredibly simple, just put a variety of vegetables in some water, add some stock, boil until cooked and blend until as smooth or as lumpy as you prefer. So what's the point of an entire recipe book for soup, you might wonder. This book is brought to you by the people behind the incredibly successful New Covent Garden Soup Co., and is full of their own recipes (that are sold at a large premium in your local supermarket). The company itself began back in 1987, but this cookbook came out somewhat later, in 1996. Containing 120 recipes from all sorts of sources, including those sent in by ...  Read the complete review

For my birthday, earlier this year, I received the New Covent Garden Soup Company’s “Book of Soups”. A great gift, as we do tend to make a fair bit of soup, primarily for the Cabbage Soup diet, unfortunately. I was also a fan of the Covent Garden fresh soups, when they were initially released on sale. The book, ISBN 0-7522-0503-x costs £12.99 and was first published in 1996. However it either isn’t on general release in the northern climes of Scotland, or I have been walking around with my eyes shut, as I had never seen it before. I suspect the latter is true. Now on to the book. There are ten chapters; each ...  Read the complete review