The Last Sapien | soup du jour

Soup Du Jour | Like Midas turning everything touched into gold, so is my wife with art. My wife is a wonderful person, a teacher by trait but she is an artist by heart. A painter, jeweler a story teller. Part of what she does is literature nights - reading gems while serving soup a true heart warming experience it goes well with winter days and chilly nights.

If you ask her about the recipe of the soup, you are bound to get confused - there is no one ingredient that is not qualified to enter the mix, there is no one seasoning that is better than another, so it is all random, like her paintings, like her recycled art jewelry and even like the way she teaches in class. Which brings me to the general concept of life. Everyday we 'eat' our own Soup Du Jour, the ingredients change daily, whatever is in front of us, people, situations, tasks, these are seasoned by our experiences, good night sleep, the best sex ever or unfortunately more often the downers - where I am sure you can make that list without any help from me. All these spice up our soup and make it creamy, salty, a tad of sweet or super hot. People whom approach us unexpectedly and leave good taste behind are added to our soup, a task you never believed you would accomplish is completed or a situation you braved they are all mixed up and ready for the question of how was your day? where the answer could be OK, interesting or the best soup I ever have had.

How can you spice up other people's soup, how do you want the people around you to have their soup flavored? If one ingredient you added served all well today - wouldn't it spice up your soup tomorrow? Soups are known to improve on flavor in time, like our thinking habits, our instincts - they all reach a profound level and then there is no soup left. Quantities count too - you do not want any part to be taking over others, they all mix to a single flavor that is unique, what makes today special and different from another.

So here is my Chef's advise - you always want to have the best ingredients in your soup, you are the one to control what goes in, some of it would affect other people's soups, so be mindful. Know how to share some of the ingredients with others. Have enough for yourself but do not gorge on it. Be diverse - do not eat the same soup every day - it would feel like a strict diet and make you disgust from what was a pleasure couple days ago. Be creative - do not fear trying new flavors, and most important - food allergies - if you know that something makes you feel bad, man - why add it to your soup?

Bon Appetit