in the soup

“It felt like what the moment called for. I was definitely in the soup already,” she says, writing songs for “Virgin” — “dropping all guard and being radically transparent,” as she puts it.

Though we tend to toss homelessness in the soup pot along with mental illness and drug use, the terrifying fact is that nearly half of the folks living on our streets are over the age of 50 and wound up there because a bit of bad luck left them unable to pay the rent.

The rice cake soup is made with a base of either beef broth or anchovy broth, seasoned and boiled with flat, oval-shaped rice cakes that become soft and chewy in the soup.

Then I took some of the leeks, pulled them out before cooking them in the soup, and then I fried them in ghee, and then put that on top as a topping.

He wasn’t in the convenience store where he usually bought vodka or in the soup kitchen where he sometimes ate lunch.