Grab your spoon! About 50 percent of these delicious soup recipes are completely new and have been donated to this fabulous cookbook by some of the world's most respected chefs and cooking teachers, including Michael Chiarello, Joyce Goldstein, Madhur Jaffrey, Jacques Pepin and Martin Yan.From light vegetable soups to earthy meat stews, from enticing seafood soups such as Hog Island Oyster Stew to spicy entrees like Deborah Madison's Silky Roasted Yellow Pepper Soup to the hearty Coq au Vin classic, these 75 tempting recipes will fill the tummy and soothe the soul.A portion of the royalties goes to NextCourse, a nonprofit organization that educates women in the San Francisco County Jail on nutrition and cooking on a budget. Half of the recipes were previously published by Chronicle, whose cookbooks include A Beautiful Bowl of Soup and The Big Book of Soups and Stews.