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The following modules appear on the "Food & Drink" home page of stlmag.com and are updated weekly.
Companion (for soups): Sure, Companion’s breads are wonderful, and that pretzel croissant is the best thing since…never mind. But there’s no better—or better quality--deal in town than the four homemade soups Companion's two cafes offer daily, $5.95 for a large bowl--and that includes a crusty French roll. Soups change daily and by location. See website for details.
Soup Savvy Ever wonder how the better restaurants seem to serve their soups hotter—and keep them hotter--than lesser places? The secret: Chefs heat each order in a skillet and then pour it into pre-warmed cups and bowls. And you thought the difference was another 30 seconds in the microwave…
Lukewarm-ity Most of the time we're drawn to soup because of taste and texture, but lately we admit to ordering it just because it's hot--and we're not. So when soup arrives tepid and languid, we get hot alright, but in all the wrong ways. We want to see steam! Calefaction! Force us to blow ever so gently across those first spoonfuls... We revel in the ritual. It's the one part of cold weather we like.
