Soup's On!

From tomato dill to beef barley with lemon, five delicious soups were on the menu at Annika Shapiro’s kitchen on a brisk fall day. A Peconic Bay Zonta member, Annika held a soup-tasting fundraiser for sixteen women 
at her home.

Annika put the finishing touches on the five soups, answered everyone's questions about soup making, and passed out the five recipes, plus a recipe for homemade bread, which she served with the meal.

Peconic Bay Zonta co-president Liala Strotman helped with the soup preparation, and her counterpart, co-president Diane Greenberg, gave a short talk about Zonta. Together with fees for the tasting, donations and proceeds from a raffle of a soup tureen, the event raised $1,070.

Thanks to a generous donation from Diane Giardi of East End Arts, who also helped with serving the soups, each of the participants took home a beautiful ceramic bowl made at Greenport Pottery as part of an “Empty Bowls” project. As part of this hunger-fighting program, each guest chooses a bowl to keep as a reminder that there are always empty bowls in the world. In exchange for the bowl, the guests give a minimum donation to feed the hungry. Thus, part of the soup-tasting proceeds will go to Island Harvest, a food bank for Long Island.

Photo credits: top, Bill Greenberg; bottom, Liala Strotman