Bittman on soups, today

Now that the NY Times is free, again, at last, here's Bittman's A Marriage Made at the End of Summer. With a video. Just a word about puréeing soups: If you have an immersion blender, this is as good a place for it as any. Home immersion blenders don’t have the power to truly purée in the way standard upright blenders do. But putting just-off-the-boil soup in an upright is a tad dangerous. If the lid flies off at the wrong moment — and it happens — you run the risk not only of scalding yourself but also of staining the ceiling. No kidding.