Taking Stock

Confession: I can sometimes be a lazy cook.

Especially when it comes to soup and the stocks required to make them.

See, I have been spoiled by this instant-gratification sort of society we live in. It has allowed me to purchase the ready-made variety broth or stock necessitated by my spur of the moment decisions to make soup.

Please don’t hate me for bowing to the can opener of convenience.

Instead, perhaps you may even congratulate me – for it is with a well-trained eye for time-saving solutions that I spied something all local cooks like me must find incredibly exciting: high quality, made from scratch stocks from The Soup & Stock Market.

You can find The Soup & Stock Market at the Milwaukee Public Market, which opened last October in the Historic Third Ward.

Here, local vendors and specialty food vendors offer a veritable feast for the senses.

Everything from piping hot coffee, crusty baguettes, and beautiful bouquets, to fresh seafood, locally grown organic produce, spicy Wisconsin-made sausage, cooking classes, and of course the full-flavored soup and stocks can be found within the airy confines of the Public Market.

The Soup & Stock Market serves up six different kinds of soup daily, plus offers the aforementioned stock available in chicken, beef, turkey, vegetable, ham, lobster, fish, and veal varieties.

Since I frequently find myself in need of vegetable and chicken stock, I (forgive me) stocked up and headed back home to throw on a pot of soup and finish Joshua Zeitz' new book entitled Flapper – an awesome read capturing both the dazzle and the decline of the Jazz Age and uncovering the essence of women who would no-doubt be proud of this nod toward time-saving domestic devices.

Comments

[Andre]

I don't cook much anymore (I'm a guy who lives alone - what's the point?), but I had to stay with my sister while my mom was in Mexico recently, and that included doing the cooking.

Well when I went to dust of the "skills", I must have forgotten that stock takes a dead minimum of three hours. Who the hell would want to make stock from scratch? This place is a godsend.

[Audra]

I couldn't agree more! :-)