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The folktale of “Stone Soup” — shared in various traditions — tells of travelers to a town who, to encourage villagers to share their food, let slip their recipe for stone soup, tossing a rock into a ...

Whether you’re serving it as an appetizer or as the main course, it doesn’t get easier than these five-ingredient soup recipes (excluding pantry staples like salt, pepper and oil). With simple ...