Stone Soup: The Art of Improvisation in the Kitchen

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Let’s see what’s in the fridge

Stone Soup is a children’s story from my childhood. Based on a European peasant story, it tells of poor travelers who have no food but set up their cooking pot outside a village. The villagers won’t share their food so the travelers put some stones and water into the pot and sit around the fire tending it as though it is a…