Summer Pea Soup
(I do need to iron this tablecloth, but let's pretend not to notice, okay?) Given my recent pea soup with cilantro recipe from Diana Henry , you may notice a recent and certain penchant for the soup of this spring climbing plant. You may also be asking how much pea soup can a woman eat. Turns out that the answer is a lot . You see, I know that I have a thing for pea soup. Not only have I posted the aforementioned Diana Henry recipe, but I have an old favorite split pea and ham soup from Best Soups in the World . However, I was not always a pea soup fan--indeed, no. Growing up, I knew that pea soup was my mother's favorite soup (and my brother's was New England clam chowder--I am not sure I had a favorite soup). However, for my mother, it didn't matter--homemade, canned, restaurant-ordered, split with a ham hock, fresh with cream--pea soup in all its forms was her favorite. I, on the other hand, found it heavy, almost dusty tasting. Yet, as we age, so ...