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Primordial Soup
Into a deep cast-iron pot, pour 48 oz. of chicken broth. Into the chicken broth place a large onion or 2 medium onions or the equivalent amount of shallots, quartered, 1 chopped bunch of spinach, 1 chopped bunch of green kale, 2 large chopped carrots, a chopped bunch of parsley, either kind, and any other extra clean chopped green vegetables you might have lying around. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer very gently for about two hours. Strain the broth and serve hot in individual bowls with bits of chopped tarragon or chives (or both) floating on top.
Chapter Five
...Waiters set down bowls of some sort of broth with tiny bits of green, algae probably, floating on top. Maxine took a spoonful of vegetal consommé, thinking as she did so that this was the kind of food invalids were given when they were almost dead, either to bring them back from the brink or sustain them into the underworld...
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