Building a community around Soup, Ms. Daughdrill said, is "part of my art".
Activities like making origami, cooking soup, boning fish and building a couch out of remaindered copies of his first novel, "The Renderer," are challenges attempted by Richard, who complains loudly that he can't make anything with his hands.
To paraphrase a contemporary joke, building an autocracy out of a democracy is making a fish soup out of an aquarium, but constructing a democracy on the foundation of an autocracy is making an aquarium out of fish soup.
A council building from which a soup kitchen in a Kent town was told to leave nearly a year ago is still empty, angering local charity workers.
One final note on building vegetable soups -- they often need a finishing touch, even more than other soups.
They join Magic Johnson in building soup kitchens for the poor.
On nearby Brune Street an historic building that formerly housed a soup kitchen "for the Jewish poor" is being converted into upmarket flats.
Mariann told me to choose the place, and I picked a cafe in a tiny clapboard building where a kettle-shaped wooden sign announced: "Homemade soup".
Her dwarfs originally spent long, digressive scenes slurping soup and building her a bedstead wrapped in vines, and among their proposed names were Burpy, Neurtsy and Sleazy.
