Hello, my name is Kerri Quinn Jaffe. Welcome to my soup blog.

I have had a love affair with soup for the last twenty years. I think about soup more than most and will admit that I consider soup-making part of my persona. Soup was the first meal I cooked for the love of my life (Tuscan White Bean with Rosemary on 58th and Sutton Place) and it is the first thing I want to cook regardless of the season. 

I began making soup as a way of finding space and time in a wonderfully full life. First selecting, then arranging, then scrubbing, dicing, chopping, combining, seasoning, stirring and tasting until the flavors all dance together. I love the nurturing quality of a bowl of soup. Have a cold? Have some of mom's chicken soup. Having a bad day? Why not cry with your BFF over some wonton soup?

The Soup Sunday is never planned a week in advance or in advance at all. We wake up on Sunday, read the New York Times, see what the day is going to bring and then we talk about what the soup should be. A huge thank you to my family for loving this tradition. My oldest daughter and I are shooting the photographs of the recipes you see here and my youngest daughter is my most passionate sous-chef. I am so grateful to the Jaffe girls for loving our Soup Sundays. 

There is no requirement to be exact about anything while stirring your soup. In a world filled with exacting personalities that can be very refreshing. Soup recipes are meant to be stretched, questioned, fussed with, ignored, amended or thrown out altogether for what your pantry has to offer. I love the pliability of soup. It is as good as a great hot yoga class for my soul!

Why Sundays? Some people go to church. I make soup. I make soup because it makes me think. I contemplate the week that has past and the one that lies ahead. I consider where I am with my relationships, my goals, myself, and sometimes (most simply and blissfully) just where I am with the soup. 

After twenty years of making soups....inspired and adapted from cookbooks, magazines and working with too many chefs in too many kitchens to count, I decided it was time to start documenting the Soup Sunday tradition. This blog has no aspirations other than to make and log some delicious recipes and share them with people I love. I hope you enjoy some of the soups with your crew along the way. 

Making soup creates small, slow moments in a life filled with busy calendars and endless things to do. This is the reason why I will always make the soup on Sundays.