Charlotte Senior Center
Monday Munch: May 20
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Chicken Noodle Soup, Green Salad, Bread and Beverage, Homemade dessert
Jacques Pepin's beautiful book, "Art of the Chicken: A Master Chef's Painting, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird", answers the question: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Although not offering a recipe for chicken noodle soup, he pays tribute to the fact that many good soups start with great chicken broth.
Maurice Sendak fans know his book about chicken soup through every month of the year, though his is chicken soup with rice, not noodles.
Here's Carole King singing an animated version:
https://youtu.be/r9VvlI6sHJw .
If you want to put your middle-schooler—or your spouse, or your neighbor—in stitches, give them a copy of Daniel Pinkwater's "Hoboken Chicken Emergency." There's a copy waiting for some lucky reader in the Little Free Library for Kida at the Grange (2858 Spear Street).
In 1934, the Campbell Soup Company introduced Campbell's Noodle with Chicken Soup. "Noodle with Chicken" became "Chicken Noodle" after a radio announcer misread an ad, and that name stuck. Today, the Campbell Soup Company produces a variety of chicken soups too numerous to list.
Rest assured: No Campbell's at the Charlotte Senior Center. As always, you're in for the delicious treat of homemade.
In The New York Times, the venerable John Hodgman said he loves all soups "apart from the crime of Manhattan clam chowder."
Hodgman made no comments about chicken noodle, but when a reader asked him about her husband putting banana peel in their soup, he advised, "You deserve to eat food in your own home without fear it's been laced with compost."
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