When not much remains in the fridge, when the asparagus is cheap or when we’re pressed for time, we all need simple, healthy and great ideas for meals. Soup is a natural choice, and SoupeSoup delivers. Beautifully packaged, with gorgeous photography, the book presents sixty-five soup recipes that make the ordinary into the extraordinary: from classic Clam Chowder and Gumbo to modern remixes such as Eggplant Potage with Gremolata. Forty generous and creative salads, forty hearty sandwiches and some exceptional desserts round out this fabulously usable cookbook.

CAROLINE DUMAS opened the first Soupesoup on Duluth Street in Montreal in 2001. Today she has six restaurants, one of which seats one hundred and is full to capacity every day. She has appeared for several seasons as one of the head chefs on Pour le plaisir. This is her first cookbook.

DOMINIQUE LAFOND has photographed food for numerous cookbooks, including Garde-Manger. She is a regular contributor to Bon Appetit.

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?With recipes like Oriental Chick Pea Soup and Grilled Cheese with Gouda and Red Cabbage, followed by some cardamom brownies or perhaps her famous “pouding chomeur,? Dumas turns what could be an ordinary meal into a gourmet treat.? — Lesley Chesterman, THE MONTREAL GAZETTE

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