Tasty Tuesday ... soup

"Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the world than soup?  Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are improvised and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who is also capable of doing honor to your richest table impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does it loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around after your poor and sick,  do you?
Judith Martin