Kale soup

New Bedford is a cultural and culinary melting pot, and there are a lot of good soups available. What would you say should be the official soup of New Bedford?

Now, you may have been raised on kale soup with macaroni in it. If so, Barry Richard feels sorry for you.

It's a Portuguese staple on the menu here on the SouthCoast, but the debate is red hot when it comes to the best kale soup around.

Until I moved here to the Southcoast for the first time back in the 1990s, I had never heard of kale. Seeing Kale Soup as a restaurant menu choice only made me wonder who or what the soup was named in honor of.

I have discovered a life-changing soup: chale. I know...it sounds a little weird. Kale soup? Yummy. Chowder? Yummy. Together? Hmmmm. Not sure. UNTIL I TRIED IT at the Brewfish Restaurant in Marion. It is so spicy and delicious...

Looks like the price of a bowl of kale soup is going up at vavo's house. According to ABC news Australia, one of the world's largest kale seed suppliers has run out of every variety of kale seed. Eek! The good news is, most of our Portuguese relatives grow their own kale and veggies in their own quintal (garden)...