The 7 Best Soup cookbooks (2023 reviews)

We consider a soup cookbook to be a worthy investment in the long run. We are here to help you choose the right one for your purposes from all the best available products in market today.

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Best Overall: Buy: Harbstreet Soup Cookbook READ REVIEW

Best For bringing To sick friends: Buy: Clara Silverstein Soup Cookbook READ REVIEW

Best For eaters: Buy: Rebecca Katz Soup Cookbook READ REVIEW

Best For beginner: Buy: Kate Mcmillan Soup Cookbook READ REVIEW

Best For Christmas: Buy: editor At taste Of Home Soup Cookbook READ REVIEW

Best For Easy Yummy Soup: Buy: Janet Zimmerman Soup Cookbook READ REVIEW

Best For teaching children: Buy: HAPTON Soup Cookbook READ REVIEW

Best Overall: Harbstreet Soup Cookbook

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The look and feel of this cookbooks are consistent with the high quality we're used to from the rest of Harbstreet's lineup. Soups are the ultimate comfort food for your body and soul, and Cara & Julie show you exactly how it should be done. Whether you are a party of one or a family of five, you will find both comfort and adventure in this cookbook. It has a story, with layers of texture, flavor, nutrition, and most importantly, inspiration to. The food photography will have your mouth watering for a bowl of tasty, healing soups. It is easy to forget that these soups are healthy for you.

The healing aspects of the soups, yes there is healing besides chicken noodle, is a nice bonus that just made the book so much better. It is easy to follow, include options for unique twists, and the nutrition information is clear and spot on. They even cover storage such as freezing, thawing and reheating soups. This collection is better suited to meat eaters.

• Along with different types of spices such as ginger, cinnamon, tumeric, and garlic
• A comprehensive guide for creating delicious, healing soup
• Delivers what they promise

Best For bringing To sick friends: Clara Silverstein Soup Cookbook

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Clara Silverstein has been making great cookbook for years, thanks to a combination of clever design and appropriate materials. This is truly the best soup cookbook ever. The flavor and the simplicity (because they are all fairly straightforward recipes without a bunch of craziness) make for delicious doable meals that are fabulous to share with family and/or friends. These recipes make a lot of soup. It is great for bringing to sick friends and relatives, new parents, care packages and potluck dinners.

This book is a real keeper and a must-have for soup fans. The book is well-written, nicely illustrated, with little anecdotes about each soup. These are easy to shop for and make an amount that can be used for a meal and then for the freezer. It is a useful path back toward a decent and healthy way of cooking and living.

• Love to make soup, especially in the winter, of course
• Excellent soup cookbook and almost all recipes are gluten free
• Good investment for long term

Best For eaters: Rebecca Katz Soup Cookbook

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Compared with other cookbook in this category, the rebecca katz soup cookbook has a convenient design. It is great way to get a lot of good veggies in when you're not up for cooking. This book provides a really good vegetable broth recipe, and very nutritious. The recipes are very flavorful, well written and super healthy. The pictures are inviting and colorful and the recipes are compelling without being complex. Most of the ingredients are easy to find if you have Asia and India markets in your area, as well as access to fresh produce. The soups are new recipes for the most part with some being tried and true.

These recipes and the gorgeous photography deserve five stars so five stars it is. It is suitable for eaters ranging from carnivores to vegans, and accommodating gluten-free and dairy-free diets.

• A must-have book for all soup lovers
• Good engaging variety of recipes focused on health and flavor
• Very well researched and written to make soup making easy and delicious

Best For beginner: Kate Mcmillan Soup Cookbook

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The kate mcmillan soup cookbook is satisfactory and appropriate and fits well with your regular usage. If YOU LIKE SOUP, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. It has so many great recipes, some easy and some a bit harder. The array of options from soups that include meat to vegetarian ones, healthy ones to heartier ones is fantastic. It is easy to read and ingredients are easy to find and pantry staples.

What is so charming about this book is that it literally breaks down the year into months and then has a soup for each day of the month. Arranging the recipes by month makes it easy to cook locally and with fresh ingredients. It is perfect as a coffee table/decor book.

• Working in batches, purée the soup in a food processor or blender
• A really nice cookbook for soup lovers
• Great pictures, lovely hardbound book, easy to follow recipes, and a great variety

Best For Christmas: editor At taste Of Home Soup Cookbook

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Next on the list, we've got yet another cookbook that manages to win our hearts. It's the editor at taste of home soup cookbook and it's widely considered as cookbook that has the most suitable features. It expands on the other Heartwarming Soup cookbooks from Taste of Home by presenting 380 great soup recipes. It is a great "all purpose" soup cookbook. The pictures make these soups look truly delectable. These recipes are made with generally readily-available ingredients with clear directions. There's a nice variety of soup recipes.

This is a very simple cookbook. It is made in a short time. The soups are really yummy and freeze well. It’s a good cookbook to have for quick soups after working all day.

• Simple soup recipes from taste of home
• Impressive compilation with nearly every recipe having a sharply focused, colorful photo
• Simple, straight forward with plenty of photos
• 380 wonderful soup recipes, plus many complimentary pastries to go with them

Best For Easy Yummy Soup: Janet Zimmerman Soup Cookbook

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If you often find yourself scrambling for appropriate and satisfactory cookbook, janet zimmerman soup cookbook is your end point. This book will inject some rocket jets in your same-ol' same-ol' soup offerings. The recipes are easy to follw and come out perfect everytime. The author includes recipes for everyone's favorite soups, as well as some unusual combinations you may not have tried before, or only had in a restaurant setting. There are even tips for getting around pet peeves, like prepping pearl onions.

This is a great soup cookbook. The recipe included in this book is very easy to follow and based on tofu. This book will get anyone started on making soup.

• Perfect addition to any cook's collection
• Great variety with easy to follow directions
• Well known and modern comfort soups
• Ready recipes and mixed typical american soups with more international flavors

Best For teaching children: HAPTON Soup Cookbook

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The hapton soup cookbook's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. This cookbook is the ultimate. It delivers lots and lots of great ideas. It is easy to follow recipes, beautiful pictures, and the stories behind some of the recipes warm the heart as much as the soup. It includes hints and tips for pots and kitchen tools, your pantry basics and preparing the ingredients. It is perfect for teaching children the value of making and sharing a meal, especially when they are learning basic cooking skills.

—Julie van rosendaal, cookbook author, cbc radio food columnist, food writer and editor. It has nice pictures of what you're making to look at and various recipes for the seasons. The book is very useful especially during the deep freeze, snow storms and cold arctic conditions. The recipes are easy to read, give helpful hints, and the pictures are scrumptious.

• Beautiful pages filled with tons of great recipes and encouraging pictures
• A perfect guide to perfect soups
• Excellent cool book, numerous, easy to make recipes