This title includes 190 wonderful recipes for soups that will inspire the emotions, excite the taste buds, warm the body and comfort the soul. It is a tempting collection of delicious soups, broths, chowders, bisques, consommes and gumbos. It is superbly illustrated with over 730 photographs. It includes a complete guide to ingredients, and step-by-step instructions for making your own stocks and creative garnishes. It features dishes from all over the world, including Hungarian Cherry Soup, Moroccan Harira, Louisiana Seafood Gumbo and Thai Fish Broth. Chapters include light and refreshing soups, smooth vegetable soups, chunky vegetable soups, legume soups, pasta and noodle soups, chicken and duck soups, meat soups, fish soups and shellfish soups. It offers complete nutritional information for every recipe. This lavishly illustrated volume is a fantastic showcase of soup recipes, offering truly mouthwatering ideas. The book opens with guide to essential soup ingredients, then presents a superb collection of soups from each corner of the world, for every taste, season and occasion. There are soups from the finest cuisines - sumptuous Avgolemono and Seafood Chowder from the Mediterranean, Mexican-style Tortilla Tomato Soup and Thai classics such as Cellophane Noodle Soup. The book contains wonderful versions of all the classic soups, soups for everyday eating and family meals, and a whole range of innovative new recipes to try.