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the east 33 Caroline Bowker '05 Restaurant Daniel Peter Pollay '86 Posana Joey Letchinger '11 Wine Larder Ming-Tai Huh '98 Puritan & Company Noor Shikari '00 Citrico As working moms, filmmaker Caroline Laskow and her friends on the Lower East Side of Manhattan found themselves always in a hurry with little time for getting dinner on the table, let alone keeping up with each other. To give each other a break while strengthening their connections, the four women came up with the idea for a soup club. Once a month, each member of the club is responsible for making a giant vat of soup along with the appropriate toppings and sides to share with the others and their families. This allows members the luxury of having dinner delivered to their door three days out of every month, plus it fosters connections in the group that come naturally with sharing food. Soup can be prepared in large volume and transported easily, and it adapts well to different palates. Last spring the four friends published The Soup Club Cookbook, which is garnering national attention for its approach to community and cooking as well as the variety of recipes for soup and other meals that feed a crowd. Laskow traces her zeal for preparing comfort food back to her lower school days: "I remember our Thanksgiving celebrations, where each class prepared one part of the meal, and being in the stuffing group in second or third grade – clearly a choice assignment. It was the first time I'd encountered sage as a real herb (not just a song lyric from "Scarborough Fair"), and being able to identify its distinctive aroma was a revelation." Caroline Laskow '91 The Soup Club Cookbook Latin Magazine » Fall 2015