Good Taste: For the love of soup!
Soupery's on It's been four years since Kate Hartman left her corporate marketing job in New York for the love of soup. And her pots keep getting bigger. After building her artisan soup business at farmer's markets from Rittenhouse to Bryn Mawr, wooing fa
It's been four years since Kate Hartman left her corporate marketing job in New York for the love of soup.
And her pots keep getting bigger. After building her artisan soup business at farmer's markets from Rittenhouse to Bryn Mawr, wooing fans with warm shooters of curried red lentils, peanutty Senegalese chicken stew, and seasonal gazpacho, Hartman finally has a corner "soupery" to call her own.
Snug below the Frankford El on the fast-evolving border of Kensington and Fishtown, this is the commercial kitchen she's been aiming for - already simmering through 200-plus gallons a week.
Its cozy corner cafe, however, is an exceptionally inviting eat-in hideaway. We tucked into a bowl of hearty turkey-white bean chili, and its all-organic ingredients were so carefully steeped with just the right tone of spice (earthy, but not too hot) that we took two frozen quarts to go.
- Craig LaBan
Turkey and white bean chili, $5.25-$7.25 a bowl, Good Spoon Soupery; 1400 N. Front St.; goodspoonfoods.com