On Soup

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 7 a.m.

b'We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\\u2019ll read excerpts from "The Feasts of Autolycus", including \\u201cOn Soup\\u201d and \\u201cThe Incomparable Onion\\u201d, published in 1900 and edited by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to\\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\\n\\nPennell was an American travel writer, columnist, biographer and memoirist. Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and also one of her uncle the folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland.\\n\\nCoincidentally, Charles Godfrey Leland compiled the book \\u201cAlgonquin Legends\\u201d that the recent Snoozecast episode \\u201cBadger the Mischief Maker\\u201d was based on.\\n\\n\\u2014 read by \'N\' \\u2014\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'