My guest this week (for the second time) is Caroline Wright. Caroline has written a phenomenal book called Soup Club: 80 Cozy Recipes for Creative Plant-Based Soups and Stews to Share (affiliate link), and we talk in this episode about how food is so much more than calories and nutrients. It also feeds our spirits, and that may be especially true for soup. You’ll hear in our discussion how Caroline came up with the idea of an actual soup club, and why the recipes in her book are so successful, which I can vouch for personally. I think you’ll really enjoy our conversation.

Topics we got into included:

• My own experience cooking from Soup Club
• Instant Pot adaptations of Caroline’s recipes
• Caroline’s recovery from a glioblastoma
• The backstory for Soup Club
• Infusing food with the energy and intention with which it’s created
• Where soup gets its “humble magic”
• My early unsuccessful attempts to make soups
• The sometimes “shocking” amount of oil in some Soup Club recipes
• Why none of the recipes in Caroline’s book use stock or broth
• Some of Caroline’s favorite soups from her book

Caroline Wright is a cook, writer and terminal brain cancer survivor.

During her undergraduate education in Paris, she was inspired to turn a life-long interest and passion for food into a career.

Caroline attended the La Varenne culinary program with Anne Willan in Burgundy, then started her career writing and styling recipes as a food editor for Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food magazine.

Her original recipes have appeared in many national magazines since, including Cooking Light, Southern Living, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Real Simple and Health. 

She’s also written several cookbooks, including Twenty Dollar, Twenty-Minute Meals and Cake Magic!. And she wrote a children’s book for her sons about her enduring love, entitled Lasting Love, which we talked about the first time I had her on, and has another children’s series about baking that’s forthcoming.

Caroline lives in Seattle with her family.

Find Caroline online at her website where you can sign up for her monthly newsletter and see all of her books.