Filled with fresh, new ideas and superb photography, this book introduces creative soups of all styles, including chilled, clear, light, creamy, spicy, rich, hearty and extravagant. It opens with an essential guide to soup ingredients, how to make your own stocks, and step-by-step instructions for adding decorative garnishes such as chopped herbs, grated cheese, crispy croutons, swirled cream and country dumplings. Then follows a superb collection of soups from every corner of the world. The instructions for every recipe are demonstrated step-by-step and every finished dish is shown in a glorious colour photograph, so the reader knows exactly what they are aiming to achieve.