Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat, vegetables or legumes in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth.Traditionally, soups are classified into two broad groups: clear soups and thick soups. The established French classifications of clear soups are bouillon and consommé. Thick soups are classified depending upon the type of thickening agent used: purées are vegetable soups thickened with starch; bisques are made from puréed shellfish thickened with cream; cream soups are thickened with béchamel sauce; and veloutés are thickened with eggs, butter and cream. Other ingredients commonly used to thicken soups and broths include rice, flour, and grain.One of the first types of soups can be dated to about 6000 B.C. and was made of hippopotamus or the hearts of 5 sparrows. Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of waterproof containers (which probably came in the form of pouches made of clay or animal skin) about 9,000 years ago.

This potato and leek soup provides the perfect meal: it's warm, soothing, smooth and tasty. It leaves you very fulfilled, it's easy to make and it doesn't require too many ingredients to make. Here we add some bacon to make it a little bit different and give it some body. Bacon is a nice addition since it provides good flavor and some good fat.

A healthy and nutritious soup can add a little warmth to even the most frigid winter day. Many low fat soup recipes make it easy to get a head start on our goals for eating healthy during the coming year.Try this tasty broccoli and potato soup and get a whole day's supply of vitamin C and 30% or your daily calcium.

This new free Spanish lesson is about food. You’re going to hear the ten words and expressions below. They’re all very common and useful words. Press play to hear them. To practise speaking, say them out loud along with the mp3. Some Spanish and English words look very similar and are easy to learn: la sopa – the soup, la patata – the potato ...