A Soup That Roxane Gay Actually Enjoys

Contents:

• COOKG CLASS | ROXANE GAY
• A SOUP THAT ROXANE GAY ACTUALLY ENJOYS
• COOKG CLASS | ROXANE GAY’S TOMATO SOUP & GRILLED CHEE
• HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR

COOKG CLASS | ROXANE GAY

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A SOUP THAT ROXANE GAY ACTUALLY ENJOYS

[MUSIC PLAYING]The thor Roxane Gay shar a pair of favore ld-weather J. RossRoxane Gay was not always a fan of soup. It was years later that Gay, now 47, regnized the dish as a n ppot the moment she first tried a soup she enjoyed straightaway: was an “scribably betiful” butternut squash creatn, she says, every spoonful more rich and layered than the last, at the rtrant Mélisse Santa Moni, Calif.

“I didn’t want to try , but was one of those tastg menu rtrants, ” explas Gay, who liv Los Angel. ’”Gay still don’t nsir herself a huge admirer of most bisqu and bouillons, but she ocsnally crav the matzo ball soup — emphasis on the fluffy matzo balls — that her wife, the signer Debbie Millman, learned to make om her grandmother.

Gay disvered her preferred recipe for on The New York Tim Cookg app a uple of years ago when she was ld and lookg to warm up wh a “zy soup, ” she says.

COOKG CLASS | ROXANE GAY’S TOMATO SOUP & GRILLED CHEE

Gay lik to e onns of different varieti to keep thgs tertg and, a parture om Steher’s rendn, she sometim adds h basil, oregano and garlic for some extra zhuzh. Any chee will do — though Gay favors a batn of Gyère and Cheddar Jack, which melt well and taste good together — and jt before the sandwich out of the pan, she’ll sometim add slic of tomato or pickle, the tangs of which cuts through the fat of the chee.

I hate mayonnaise, ” Gay says.

) But when Gay’s parents e to vis om Florida, the eight servgs’ worth feels more manageable, and the dish has bee a kd of staple; ’s somethg they don’t tradnally eat, Gay says, but seem to enjoy. RossRoxane Gay’s Take on Jennifer Steher’s Tomato Soup — and Her Own Grilled Chee Sandwich(The soup recipe below, apart om Gay’s addns, which are alicized, is a reproductn of the origal, which n also be found at New York Tim Cookg.

HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR

)Tomato Soup (yields 8 servgs):½ pound butter1 pound onns, about 3 medium, cut to ¼-ch dice (Gay a mix of red and yellow onns)½ cup all-purpose flour4 28-ounce ns diced tomato¾ cup chicken broth¼ cup sugar1 tablpoon kosher saltPepper, to taste1 teaspoon celery salt¾ cup half-and-half2 tablpoons honeyOptnal: h basil, oregano, sage or garlic1. (Gay adds the half-and-half and any addnal seasongs here.

Alas, the future, make sure you ask about payment polici up ont to protect to Roxane Gay at Gay is an endowed profsor of media, culture and femist studi at Rutgers, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer. More about Roxane GayA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn BU, Page 3 of the New York edn wh the headle: #MyBossMaMePostThisStupidJobListg.

Few but novelists garner the praise of thor and activist Roxane Gay. But then, John Milas, whose new book, “The Milia Hoe, ” Gay lls “a betiful horror story told masterfully and elegantly, ” had the good fortune to take a semar wh her while pursug his wrg MFA at Purdue fewer novelists go que so big the first time out as Milas has, dreamg up a gothic novel about 21st-century Mar assigned to a forward operatg base Afghanistan.