Normalcy — sort of — returned to College Street in Burlington last week in the form of sweet potatoes, kale and brown rice. The mainstays of the hot bar at Zabby & Elf’s Stone Soup are back in action ...

This soup, which Dolly Parton ensured is served at her Dollywood theme park, has a long fabled history, and Dolly's mother added an extra layer of magic to it.

On Easter in 1985, Arkansas Methodists offered a free dinner in Little Rock's Quapaw Quarter to anyone in need, an act of charity they have repeated, week after week, ever since. Over the past 40 ...

I'm sure you know the story of the hungry beggar who arrives in a miserly village with nothing but a kettle. He drops an ordinary stone in the kettle, adds some water and calls it "stone soup". "It's ...

In the folk tale Stone Soup, weary travelers compel hesitant villagers each to contribute a single ingredient to a massive pot that, at first, contained just water and a stone. Slowly but surely, the ...

I love to eat. I love food. And sometimes given my enthusiastic love of food, I leap before I look when it comes to what I put in my mouth. It’s been said that I often dive headfirst into Life’s Deep ...

For more than a decade, the Stone Soup event has helped folks at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church to feed their neighbors. Now the annual fundraiser may be a key ingredient for serving even more people in ...

Before I took my first bite of lunch at Zabby & Elf’s Stone Soup in downtown Burlington, I counted the number of colors on my plate. I quit this exercise at 14, and I’m sure there were a few hues I ...