Karen Barnaby: Slow down with delicious seasonal soups

I love soup, both the making and the eating of it. I like the challenge of making it from whatever is in the fridge, or with deliberately purchased ingredients for a specific soup, borscht being one of my favourites. Soup slows you down — in the cooking and the eating.
From prepping to stirring the pot, judging the seasoning, and taking the first tentative spoonfuls from the cooler area near the rim of the bowl, soup is calming and soothing. The best part for me is the aroma of a simmering