First prepare the soup of your choice and pour it into a bowl. Then, take
the bowl and quickly turn it upside down on the cookie tray. Lift the bowl
ever so gently so that the soup retains the shape of the bowl. Gently is
the key word here. Then, with the knife cut the soup down the middle into
halves, then quarters, and gently reassemble the soup into a cube. Some of
the soup will run off onto the cookie tray. Lift this soup up by the
corners and fold slowly into a cylindrical soup staff. Square off the cube
by stuffing the cracks with this cylindrical soup staff. Place the packet
in your purse or inside coat pocket, and pack off to work.
-- Steve Martin
