Soup and Bread: Winter Wednesdays at the Hideout

By Scarlett Stoppa, February 25, 2009

Chicago 6 Corners had grand plans to use its time and this space to report on the Social Workers of Illinois Advocacy Day that is happening today, and around this time every year, down in Springfield, but mixed messages on departure time meant this reporter missed the bus. Instead, for your consideration, here is but another example of Chicago citizens applying their creative "stock" to a worthy cause.

Soup and Bread is a weekly winter fundraising event hosted by the Hideout, to which three guest cooks--local chefs and soup hobbyists--bring their tastebud-pleasing concoctions. Pass-the-hat donations go directly to the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which could use some extra help after the salmonella peanut butter epidemic forced the organization to discard a large share of recent food donations.

Tonight's featured soup chefs include Cinnamon Cooper and Robyn Nisi, who write tasty foodie blogs under the Drive-Thru crew umbrella on Gapers Block; Columbia College film professor Dan Rybicky; and dietician Bettina Tahsin. Tonight's bread is lovingly provided by Food on the Dole's writer and chef Hugh Amano. Join the queue between 5 and 6 p.m.

If you can't make it tonight, never fear, Soup and Bread Wednesdays are scheduled to continue through April 1st. OR you can cherry-pick your favorite soup recipes from the guest cooks on Hideout bartender Martha Bayne's weekly Soup and Bread blog. Bon appetite!