Katie Haarala is as much a part of Into the Soup as anyone, yet we have never actually met her face-to-face because she lives in the great white north (weird how the world works in the internet age). Katie is a key contributor to our Health & Wellness section giving us great advice on how food works to help us live a better life. Here is a soup from Katie that does just that.

A Remembrance from Doc Lawrence: I was given this recipe by one of my heroes (some of my other heroes are Joan of Arc, Mark Twain, Johnny Cash and Julia Child), Jim Sanders. Sanders, wounded five times as a foot soldier in World War II, went to France in 1948, bought a bicycle and toured the countryside, learning the language, the food and all about wines. When he returned to his Atlanta home, he was a French trained chef and had his own wines from France headed to Atlanta where he opened up the first fine wine retail shops in the Deep South and became a remarkable restaurateur and graduate school level wine educator with his classes in the back of his store.