I'd never been crazy about cold soups, but it seems that I just never had
*good* cold soups before. Last Friday I brought cold borscht to work, and I
liked it a lot. Yesterday I brought another cold soup (cream of zucchini
with sunflower greens), and I *loved* it. Today I brought white gazpacho,
and I'm enjoying it as I write this. (White gazpacho is a kind of almond
milk with garlic and peeled white grapes. The recipe originates in Spain,
same as "normal" gazpacho. Martha Stewart has a cucumber-based soup that
she CALLS white gazpacho, but I think it's just named that because it's
cold.)

In the brutally hot weather we get around Sacramento, cold soups make a lot
more sense than hot this time of year. It's also easy and practical to take
them into work, as I've been doing, and I don't need a microwave to make
them palatable. They'll be a regular part of my cooking repertoire from now
on. I'm glad I broke free of my prejudice against them! Anybody out there
have a favorite cold soup to recommend?

Bob