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Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup

Amazon.com Price:  $6.25 (as of 22/04/2019 15:29 PST- Details)

Description

This delightful recipe in poem form shows us all, old and young, how to make a heartwarming, tummy-filling bean soup — from gathering the beans, onions and garlic to allowing them to swim in the pot until the house smells wonderful and it’s time for supper.

A young boy helps his mother prepare a soup the whole circle of relatives will enjoy the use of ingredients from Mother Earth. Onions are “yellow as the dawn,” beans are like stars spread out on the “sky of the table” and the water in the pot is “as deep as a little lake.” Even as the soup is cooking, the boy buries the cooking scraps under a tree in the yard “so Mother Earth keeps on growing flavors.”

Simply written, yet full of vivid imagery, Jorge Argueta’s verse and Rafael Yockteng’s animated illustrations make preparing bean soup a fun, almost magical experience. This book is a brilliant circle of relatives recipe/poem for individuals who already love bean soup — this is a comfort food for plenty of — and for individuals who are in search of a delicious new healthy food.

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