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I recently received a copy of a new cookbook all about soups from Michele Di Pietro, creator of New York-based Mangia With Michele.
It’s not your ordinary soup cookbook.
SOUPified: Soups Inspired by Your Favorite Dishes is a whimsical and fun collection of soup recipes that were inspired by popular dishes like Eggplant Parm, Chicken Marsala, Lasagne, Shrimp Scampi, Philly Cheesesteak and even Chinese Egg Rolls.
Feel like getting creative in the kitchen? Michele shared her tips on how you too can how to turn your favorite dishes into a spoonable, bowl version.
The first step is to determine if something can be SOUPified successfully. She said you need to become deeply intimate with the underlying dish: dissect its most significant flavors and textures and decide which are the most significant and those that would need to be present in the final SOUPified version.