Comments on: 2 Sisters+1 Cookbook=Soup

By: marionroach

marionroach — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:59:20 +0000

Hello, Anna. And welcome to TSP, where we adore you and your fine work. Oh, how I love the description of your at-home kitchen-living room-library-sister connection. That sounds perfect. If you promise to keep writing them, we promise to keep reading those books of yours. Cook on, sister. We’re eating it up.

By: Anna Thomas

Anna Thomas — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:11:14 +0000

Marion — and Margaret, of course! You are both my sisters in the kitchen. The gardens and produce covered stainless steel counters sound just right to me. And thank you for the kind words — I’m so pleased that you like my new book. It sounds like Margaret will soon have cooked every recipe in Love Soup. She is quickly learning what I have long known — the kitchen is an excellent way to procrastinate writing.

And Amy — can you make your kitchen the cookbook room? Is there a bit of wall space left? I liked the idea of cooking in a library, or in the living room — so I did both in my new house. I built floor to ceiling bookcases on both sides of the big kitchen island. I got rid of most of my walls, but what I left, I lined with books. When I stand at my range, I have a stainless steel counter behind me, the living room in front of me, and the library (cookbooks) on either side. Sometimes, when things are really perfect, I have my sister sitting on a barstool at the island.

Cheers! Keep cooking!

Anna Thomas

By: marionroach

marionroach — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:06:30 +0000

Dumplings? Monika, did you say dumplings? I’ve never met a dumpling I didn’t like, no matter what the continent on which it was either from or being served. Oooh, dumplings. It is dumpling season isn’t it? How lovely of you to remind us. But butter dumplings. Well, now there’s a phrase to make a grown woman smile. Thank you. So good to see you here again. Wishing you a perfect dumpling every time. Come back soon.

By: monika

monika — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:17:50 +0000

Oh, I love Anna Thomas cookbooks!

There are two soups of hers I love from her other cookbooks that I haven’t seen anyone else ever do — fresh pea soup with butter dumplings, and tomato soup with couscous dumplings (what can I say? I have a hard time passing up dumplings! :-)).

Mmm… wish I had brought my Vegetarian Epicure books with us to Switzerland!

By: marionroach

marionroach — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:48:32 +0000

Hey, Amy: Ha ha ha: a switch hitter. And ooooh: a cookbook room. I like it. I’m on it. Let’s get the sisterhood behind this idea and change American architecture forever!

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:51:11 +0000

I ate meat, then didn’t for 10 years, now I do again. My husband calls me a switch hitter. Too many great meals out there to ignore.

Every time I swear I am not going to buy another cookbook, along comes one that I must own. Now, who’s going to help me buy an extra room to house them all in?

By: marionroach

marionroach — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:12:09 +0000

Cook on, sister. And let me know your favorites.

By: margaret

margaret — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:36:47 +0000

Thanks to Anna Thomas and “Love Soup” I will have to buy another whole freezer, I suspect. At first I didn’t even notice that more than 50 recipes at the end (breads, sides, salads, sweets) turn soup into a meal. About to start digging into those, too.