Other foods for therapy are pepper soup, ginger soup and liquor.

Soups are good, too; one night there was a thick, bright red pepper soup that was enormously satisfying.

In fact, we began one meal with Liberian pepper soup, a pungent broth with a hint of tahini.

Some of the early gifts to the woman and her baby are yams, dried fish and "uda" with which to prepare pepper soup for the new mother.

In "Semi-Homemade Cooking," for instance, the roasted pepper soup is bright and sharply flavored.

Had Ms. Lee turned out a book full of original recipes like the roasted pepper soup, it would have been an accomplishment.

The meal began with a red pepper soup, one that does not require roasting and peeling the peppers first.

'It's not because my mum was a stage mum,' she says, accepting a cup of red pepper soup from her assistant.

Most were sure that Jim Kelley's roasted garlic and pepper soup would win.

They sit in the bar's very low chairs and, under the ceiling fans' deferential spinning, make deals over Gulder beer and hot pepper soup.