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Article: Super Soup // There's Nothing Genteel About Hearty Baked Onion
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 5, 1993
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Ican't think of a soup that's messier to eat than baked onion
soup. Great advances in the culinary sciences are daily occurrences,
but no one has ever come up with a way to deal with the art of onion
soup eating - not in a genteel way, that is. In fact, the soup
seems to take on a smug attitude. Chicken soup, vegetable soup, pea
soup . . . these are, when compared to baked onion soup,
mild-mannered affairs that are simple and easy to eat. Baked onion
soup is the enfant terrible of the soup clan, and it plays its role
to the hilt (it is one of the few soups that defies canning, which
right off puts it on a different plateau).
The first thing to deal with is the heat. The soup crock is ...