#would love it if anyone added relgious texts/references to this

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“I want to be a sweetheart in every moment / full of goats & xylophones, as charming / as a hill with a small village on it. / I want to be a village full of sweethearts, / as you are, every second of the day, / cooking me soups & drawing me pictures / & holding me, my inexplicable & elephant sadness, / with your infinite arms.” - chen chen

“I started living alone, vacuuming my apartment weekly, saving parmesan rinds for soup, calling to negotiate better rates for utilities. I became a better cook and friend, especially to myself. These specific tasks are not meant to demonstrate adulthood, the inane fantasy of the unrigorous that there is a finite level—based often on what you can afford to own and what that implies—at which no further acquisition of skills or growth is necessary. Rather, it’s to illustrate that I now live my life in a way that suggests I care to be in it. Naturally that desire transfers to other tasks, practices, and ways of relating––what I mean is that it transfers to love.” - lucy morris

“Everyone needs a place. / You need it for the moment you need it, then you bless it — ‘thank you soup...’” - richard siken

“By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.” - samin nosrat

“every time my family went on a road trip when i was young we would go to this restaurant that was famous for its split pea soup and they had the cardboard cutouts in front that you put your face up to. and my brother and i would always take a picture. and now i have a collection of pictures of us growing up in front of that split pea soup restaurant” - @persimmongal

“Soup is the song of the hearth... and the home.” - louis p. de gouy

“Every time I feed people, I am offering them the universe on a plate" - jeong kwan

“I want to remember us this way—

late September sun streaming through

the window, bread loaves and golden

bunches of grapes on the table,

spoonfuls of hot soup rising

to our lips, filling us

with what endures.” - peter pereira

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SOURCES -

1 chen chen, elegy for my sadness

2 samin nosrat’s ribollita

3 susan avis murphy, bowl of soup

4 lucy morris, every long letter is a love letter

5 wayne thiebaud, cream soups 1963

6 richard siken, detail of the hayfield

7 pablo picasso, the soup 1902

8 noah verrier, grilled cheese & tomato soup 2020

9 samin nosrat, a comfort food dish rich in friendship

10 ponyo (2008) dir. hayao miyazaki

11 message from my best friend, the love of my life, @persimmongal, on 9/12/2021

12 the taste of pho (2019) dir. mariko bobrik

13 louis p. de gouy, the soup book: 770 recipes

14 portrait of a lady on fire (2019) dir. céline sciamma

15 whisper of the heart (1995) dir. yoshifumi kondō

16 jeong kwan via michelin guide global 

17 jeong kwan’s vegetable mandoo with dduk in light vegetable broth 

18 peter pereira, a pot of red lentils

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for persimmongal 🍲 ♥️