I love a good soup in the winter, and I'm always looking for new recipes, so when a whole cookbook of soup recipes showed up in the office it moved straight to my to-read pile.

Soup contains 200 recipes for all kinds of soups, categorized by main ingredient: summer vegetables; winter vegetables; legumes and nuts; fish and shellfish; and poultry, game and meat. But it's more than just a collection of recipes—recipe planners at the front of the book contain categorical listings of recipes (e.g., vegetarian, healthy or spicy) with preparation times for easy organizing. And a preparation section includes detailed and illustrated instructions for making various kinds of stock as well as preparing herbs and spices, pureeing, thickening and even how to rescue a too-thin, too-thick, lumpy or too-salty soup.
–Kat Tancock, web editor