What the jury said This book is a journey round the world through soup, a universal symbol of low-cost cooking. With 75 recipes from 22 countries, boiling hot soups to warm you up on cold winter nights or fresh chilled soups to cool you down on hot summer days, savoury and sweet, coloured with spices, stories of different places and curious details on unusual ingredients. Today as in the past, our homes are filled with the fragrance of soups, a family dish that doesn’t need a lot of attention while cooking: boiling away on its own just with simple genuine ingredients.