The french love to “fête“, that is party!  There is a charming street near us, Rue Biot, where the local merchants band together to organize street parties.  The most recent was a Fête de la Soupe.  Merchants on the street made soup and there was a tasting to determine the best soup.

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Here is one of the organizers with his special soup spoon.

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Here is the soup tasting. It was all in good fun and very informal.

Mamans favorites were:

  • Betterave soup  – an amazing lush and creamy beet soup
  • Traditional soup – the traditional French vegetable puree soup. The flavor brought back memories of the family I lived with in France while in high school.
  • Céleri-rave, roquefort, and poire soup –  A creamy celeriac, roquefort cheese and pear soup.  Sounds yummy doesn’t it?

Filles favorites were:

  • Minestrone soup – This was classic Italian.
  • Céleri-rave, roquefort, and poire soup – She liked it a lot even though it had a very strong flavor from the cheese.