Article: It's pea soup season.(The Last Word)(Personal account)

Winter is as much a jail sentence as a season. We're holed up inside trying to stay warm and busy, for me this means, stoking the fire, reading, sipping scotch and making pea soup.

An ancient food, pea soup has found renewed popularity with the comfort food movement. It is an ideal food for shut-ins. It is simple to make but takes a lot of time two days, if done right. With all this time looking over a pot, no wonder people improvise. The most unusual break from tradition is the use of pig's feet instead of a hambone.

I start with a fully cooked ham shank and a few bags of dry pebble-like split-peas. They come in yellow, which is consistent with ...

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