Soup Makes the Meal: 150 Soul-Satisfying Recipes for Soups, Salads and Breads - Softcover

We eat on the run so often these days that it has become even more important to focus on preparing balanced, nourishing food. Soup Makes the Meal provides that balance: complete, comforting three-course meals that don't take hours of labour. This book is divided into 50 menus, each including a soup, bread, and a salad recipe whose flavours harmonise, although separate elements can also be mixed and matched. Best of all, the soups don't require home-made stock, many (but not all) of the breads are quick breads, and the salads range from light to hearty.

Ken Haedrich is the author of the definitive book on pie, Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie, which Melissa Clark in the New York Times called "a masterful pastry tome" and which Cooking light magazine named one of the 100 best cookbooks of the past 25 years. He has written 12 other cookbooks, including Home for the Holidays, which won an International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award, Dinner Pies, Country Baking, and Apple Pie. He has been a regular contributor to Bon Appetit, Better Homes and Gardens, and Eating Well magazines and he currently serves as Dean of The Pie Academy (thepieacademy.com), an online destination for pie-making wisdom and lore. A native of New Jersey and a former Navy Seabee, he lives with his wife in Wilmington, North Carolina.