This soup recipe is in honor and mourning of the recently lost Gourmet magazine. The November 2009 issue (as I am sure most of you know) is their last issue ever. It ran from the year that Pearl Harbor was attacked, 1941 to now, 2009. Americans’ food choices and methods of cooking have changed much since those early days of Gourmet. Unlike back then, we don’t associate haute cuisine anymore solely with French food. We now see the beauty and decadence of many different cuisines from the humblest rice and beans to the pristine austerity of sushi.
This soup caught my eye mostly because of the beautiful color (if you follow or look at some of my other posts, I have a thing for orange hued soups/curries). I also have not been the biggest fan of beets since I have tasted them. They were one of the other abhored vegetables that I would never touch when growing up. Mixing them with carrots and pureeing them into soup seemed like a good way to experience them again. As you can see, this soup is NOT orange but magenta. In fact, my childhood room is painted a color very similiar to this. I made some tweaks to Gourmet’s recipe and in the end, it was a delicious fall/winter day soup. I also love it because there is no crazy chopping and in the end it gets pureed anyway! —testkitchenette
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