Surely someone has already done it (name a cookbook "our blood is soup"), I thought, and then I searched for it and huh, nobody has! An opportunity!

I love a number of herbal soups actually, but idk if those will taste too unfamiliar to people who are not used to it. I've had medicinal soups and tonics too and blergh, no, not fun...

Thanks for sharing about that cookbook! Reading the description of the story made me smile a little because my reaction to my first encounter with tamales is "this is like Mexican zhongzi." (Mexican food has very familiar tastes to me)