M. F. K. Fisher Soup Quotations

This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it