Making soup

It's been a little over a year since my mother died, and one of the things I inherited from her was her collection of cookbooks.

It's quite a collection, too. When Mom ran out of space on the kitchen cookbook shelf, she just started putting them elsewhere. I've taken three large boxes and two paper bags full of cookbooks out of the house already, and I haven't touched the ones in the bedroom, the office, or the bookcase in the spare room. I'm afraid to even look in the attic.

My mother loved...