Chicken Soup

It's a food, it's a cure-all, it's comfort food and it's quick and cheap to make. Chicken soup is enjoyed by just about everyone who isn't a vegetarian or a chook rights agitator.

I'll try to keep this section as international as possible, with a few old favorites thrown in.

• Chicken With Pasta
  
  No one makes chicken broth anymore, have you noticed that? It’s always called soup regardless of how it’s made or what goes in it. This is a broth
• Chicken and Corn
  
  I can’t remember when chicken and corn soup first started appearing on the menus of Chinese restaurants. Whenever it was, it has never struck me as being particularly Asian
• Cock-a-Leekie Soup
  
  A hearty chicken soup that hails from the Scottish lowlands. Hence the whisky, which you can leave out if you prefer your soup straight
• Chicken Noodle Soup
  
  When I was a young boy I asked one of our farm workers which part of the chicken the noodles came from. I was told it was the feet, and for a long time I believed that