"Few cookbook authors have done more to define how Americans eat than Barbara Kafka, whose award-winning" Microwave Gourmet "and" Roasting "revolutionized everyday cooking." With her encyclopedic knowledge and original approach, Kafka promises to do the same in "Soup, a Way of Life." She takes this most satisfying of foods that epitomizes comfort world-round and shows us how to put it squarely on our table--simply, gloriously, soothingly, and often. She proves what a good friend good soup can be--it's not temperamental; it's forgiving; it knows no class or ethnic bounds. It restores; it refreshes; it celebrates. In nearly three hundred recipes--some so simple they require no cooking at all--Kafka offers up cold soups for hot days, hot soups for cold days, simple soups to start a meal and bountiful soups that make a meal. And most of all, there's Barbara Kafka, writing in her own inimitable way of food memories that are as enriching as the soups themselves.