It's funny how sometimes an expression you have heard early in life never leaves your consciousness.
I was checking out some blogs - click, read, click, read, click, click, click, read - and over at Here's the Veg, Michael was talking about a recipe for celeriac and worcestershire sauce he had found at Stone Soup.
Stone Soup, I thought. I wonder ...
I wondered correctly. It hit me straight away: the title of a book I read at school when I was about six - Stone Soup by Marcia Brown, published 1947.
Jules of Stone Soup (the blog) mentions a slightly different version of the story and she recalls how it inspired her to cook with her mother:
' ... I raced down to our closest creek and picked myself the tastiest looking stone I could find. After lugging my treasure home I persuaded my mum to humour me and help me create what in my small mind was a masterpiece with my new found stone and whatever soup ingredients she could spare.'
How heartwarming is that?
I've never forgotten the story, even though I haven't seen the book since primary school.
I was checking out some blogs - click, read, click, read, click, click, click, read - and over at Here's the Veg, Michael was talking about a recipe for celeriac and worcestershire sauce he had found at Stone Soup.
Stone Soup, I thought. I wonder ...
I wondered correctly. It hit me straight away: the title of a book I read at school when I was about six - Stone Soup by Marcia Brown, published 1947.
Jules of Stone Soup (the blog) mentions a slightly different version of the story and she recalls how it inspired her to cook with her mother:
' ... I raced down to our closest creek and picked myself the tastiest looking stone I could find. After lugging my treasure home I persuaded my mum to humour me and help me create what in my small mind was a masterpiece with my new found stone and whatever soup ingredients she could spare.'
How heartwarming is that?
I've never forgotten the story, even though I haven't seen the book since primary school.
Cool story - Jules' blog is magnificent. Never heard the story as a child, but as a kids bookseller, I've seen some beautiful editions of it over the years.
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I hadn't heard the story at all until I first saw Jule's blog, we were so poor all we could afford was gravel! The Portuguese have a real live recipe for it as well, sans stone, it's in the Konemann Culinaria.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's such a wonderfully good story with real truth!
ReplyDeleteAs a child we read stone soup in school. I remember my teacher letting all the kids go look for the nicest. tastiest stone. And without any spices we made our soup. It was good, spicy...
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