Featuring forty fabulous soup recipes, this cookbook showcases simple and delectable soups using fresh ingredients and fast methods. The author presents eight recipe collections with five soups in each that move the reader through a journey to discover that each pot of lowly homemade soup has so much potential for greatness. From humble culinary beginnings, the author shares her story of how she became a full-fledged Soup Snob and believes it can happen to anyone once they delve into the world of soups.