BETHLEHEM, Pa. – ArtsQuest hosted a Souper Bowl of its own this weekend. About 20 restaurants joined in on the event, which returned for its 16th year.<\/p>\n
“It’s just a really fun day. We have about 20 soups this year,” said Alexis Kuczek, ArtsQuest programming coordinator.<\/p>\n
Kuczek said each soup comes with its own unique taste.<\/p>\n
“Everybody votes. We have a panel of judges who do like our official judging and then we have the people’s choice award,” said Kuczek.<\/p>\n
“Last year we actually took the championship with a dessert soup, which is a cold soup,” said Amoya Walford, with Palette and Pour.<\/p>\n
Walford is looking for a championship repeat. She is serving an andouille sausage soup and coconut corn chowder.<\/p>\n
“We like to think back to what we made previous years. What people have liked, what they’ve gravitated towards and a little bit of what we’ve all made or had throughout the year,” said Walford.<\/p>\n
Nearby, William Rufe with Northampton Community College is serving soup here for the fourth year.<\/p>\n
“Today, we’re serving a Turkish parsnip soup, which is completely vegan. We’re garnering that with some pickled shallot, some pita crunches, some fresh herbs as well,” said Rufe.<\/p>\n
“What’s it like to be a part of this year after year?” asked 69 News reporter Jack Reinhard.<\/p>\n
“We really love showcasing our students’ creativity and being a part of the community,” said Rufe.<\/p>\n
It is soup creativity for all to enjoy.<\/p>\n
“It’s just a super fun day. Everybody comes in. This is a perfect day for soup,” said Kuczek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – ArtsQuest hosted a Souper Bowl of its own this weekend. About 20 restaurants joined in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,225,153,733,49892,523,12766,49891,17562],"class_list":{"0":"post-103070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-artsquest","12":"tag-bethlehem","13":"tag-community-event","14":"tag-cooking-competition","15":"tag-people","16":"tag-soup","17":"tag-souper-bowl","18":"tag-vegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}