Charlestonians make she-crab soup, being liberal about the ancillary ingredients, but sure of the she-crabs.
Unlike paella, this recipe is deliberately soupy -- the soup being a russet-colored, intensely rich seafood broth flavored with saffron.
Still: A tale about a fish-eye soup being cooked by an elderly Alaskan woman while she chats with a sympathetic man displays both wisdom and a lovely ear.
I still regularly hear of shark-fin soup being served at official or corporate events, and of wedding couples whose desire not to serve the dish has been overruled by their relatives.
The strong interaction is the force carried by gluons, which binds quarks inside hadrons and dominates the interactions within the quark-gluon soup being created by the LHC right now.
With nori, the seaweed used to wrap sushi or wakame, a green seaweed often served in miso soup, being consumed day after day, the bacteria in the gut would have a chance to incorporate genetic material from their marine-dwelling cousins.
