Gimme the soup, gimme the soup!
I mostly wanted to write this article to make a Biggie reference, but also to thank the BA food gods for finally getting up on their soup game. As many long-term expats can attest to, the local food scene has (tread lightly Kevin), uhh, grown a lot in the last few years. While studying abroad here back in 2008, I distinctly remember asking my host mom for a bowl to eat some cereal and being handed a coffee cup – and a small one at that. There was not a single bowl in the house. Just visit the grocery store and check out the powdered soup concoctions to reaffirm that ain’t nobody got time for a bowl of soup in this city; locals seem to be inclined to choose pretty much anything else on a cold winter day. That’s slowly changing, although the soup du jour isn’t a restaurant staple (yet), what was once mostly reserved to ethnic restaurants (think Peruvian and Chinese), is slowly become more commonplace. Here are some of my favorites: