Big Soup in Pittsburgh

I first “met” Stephen and Melissa when I was writing my Soup Night cookbook. (For those of you who own a copy of that book, their story starts on page 118). I interviewed many amazing cooks and community-minded folks this way, all of them awe-insipring, but what the Neelys do is unique.

For one thing, they go out of their way to invite people they don’t know. Like all Soup Nights, the whole point of Big Soup is to provide a way for people to meet folks they don’t know – to expand the circle of community.