Soup's On!

A very unlikely thing to have a festival for it would seem, but with the weather getting chilly, soup is on our minds and will be in our bellies tomorrow, October 23rd, for the Smith Street Soup Festival. The fest, on Smith St between Atlantic and Carroll, begins at 1pm and ends and 4pm. For $5, or $10 per family unit, you can get a ticket to sample 20 different soups given out along Smith. Proceeds go to benefit the South Brooklyn LDC and the High School for International Studies’ Culinary Arts Program. So why soup? As read in the Brooklyn Paper the director of the South Brooklyn Local Development Corporation, Bette Stoltz, was inspired by similar soup festivals that take place in the French countryside and had this to say. “Why not do it here? It’s the season for soup and its something that everybody likes, but for some reason it doesn’t get the respect it deserves. This is just making soup the star of show.” That's true. When we first heard about this festival we were like "soup festival" but after thinking about it for a moment we got excited to walk around in the chilly fall air and sample all the different soups restaurants, like Seersucker, Lunetta, and Bar Tabac, have to offer. Bring on the soup!