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For Adair, my right-hand gal and work sister: thank you for For the soup cooks (Jeff + Michael, Rachel + Marcus, Audrey,
figuring this thing out with me every step of the way. Anoo, Sarah + Rob, Frankie + Leah, and Pat): thank you
I wouldn’t want to be stranded in Santa Fe with anyone for looking for nourishment in my recipes, for sharing how
else; I am so happy that our dream of working together making soup is a ritual of yours. It is a privilege that this book
finally came true. took its shape from loving, daily moments of your lives, and
that you gave Adair and me access to them to share with
For Willow, my muse: that my recipes live next to your others. Thank you.
paintings is an honor. You make soup look like how it feels
when I dream them. For my soup clubbers (especially of season five), my friends:
you ate these soups week after week and were my first
For Amy, my carpenter: if this book was a house, you taste-testers. Your soup joy built this book, too. It makes me
hammered every nail. This book would not exist without you. happy that your favorites are among these pages for new
soup cooks to discover.
For Carly, my ringer: thank you for coming to this project, and
into my club, with a collaborative spirit. Your perspective gave For the Souper Fans from Kickstarter: I am in awe of
this book its foundation. Thank you. your generosity. Looking at you, Teresa Bigelow, Patricia
McMorrow + Martha Simmons.
For Rachel, my barometer: thank you for the gift of your help,
your dedication, your thoughtfulness. These recipes taste For Mom + Dad: my soup clubbers, soup deliverers, cook-
better and work more smoothly because of you. ie-scoopers, soup enthusiasts, endless supporters. Thank you.

For Elyse: thank you for your great work and diligent testing. For my boys, Henry, Theodore and Garth: all I could ever hope
I will never forget watching you catch the soup bug; that I was to cook or create is with you at its center. Your support, my
still contagious through these recipes made me so happy for love for you, is in every bowl of soup, every big dream I have.
this project in the final stretch. I wouldn’t be here — much less this book — without each of
you, my beloved family.
About the Artists

Caroline Wright is a professional writer, cook, and soup lady living Adair Freeman Rutledge is an award-winning fine art photographer
in Seattle with her family. Her terminal brain cancer diagnosis in with a passion for capturing the tender, human backstory behind
2017 focused her life on community and gratitude, making soup what her subjects present, from peewee footballers to Azalea
as a weekly ritual that served both in abundance. She published Trail Maids to small-town pageant queens. As a member of Soup
her first book as a soup lady, Soup Club, independently, which Club, weekly vegetable soups feed her family and fuel her as she
was then picked up for national re-release by Andrews McMeel edits her work. She teaches photography at the Photographic
in November 2021, became an Amazon best-seller, and found its Center Northwest in Seattle.
way into the hands of many more soup cooks during desperate www.adairrutledge.com
days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.carolinewrightbooks.com
About the Book
Willow Heath is a second-generation artist whose illustrations
capture the spirit of a bowl of soup — the mood and emotion This book was created in Seattle through the collaboration
of female artists, printed in Seattle at a female-owned
— given to it from the soup cook unlike any other in her first press, and first sold at a female-owned and operated
cookbook, Soup Club. Willow teaches watercolor, food illustra- cookbook store in Seattle. It was made out of the effort to
tion and portrait art at Gage Academy, Pratt Fine Art, and other celebrate what is personal, and how individuals can come
Seattle schools. together and effect each others’ lives a positive way that
www.willowheath.com wasn’t there before, like Soup Club does for its members.

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