OCT
27
Fatimah Asghar And Hieu Minh Nguyen On Daughter Of The Mountains
Soup Swap!!
November 15, 2026 at Local Economy in Oakland, CA
Local Economy, Oakland, California
This is for people who love soup. Who might have adventurous palates. Who like being cozy. And want to learn something new.
If you sign up, you're on the hook to 4 quarts of your favorite or near-favorite soup. Then, you package the soup in 4 different containers and label it with ingredients. You could even gussy them up, if you want. (You can bring your soup pre-frozen, too!)
On November 15, you bring that soup to Local Economy to meet other people who have brought 4 quarts of soup. We review the soup. We share why we brought THAT soup.
And then we pull numbers, like a fantasy sports draft. And in turns, we grab the soups we want. The idea is that we each leave with 4 different quarts of soup.
Member Christine Hyung-Oak Lee has been meaning to do this since 1998. In the middle of a cold Seattle winter, a friend-of-a-friend named Knox Gardner got sick of eating vast amounts of soup and soup leftovers. So he decided to do a soup swap similar in the manner of a cookie swap. And a tradition was born!
Date:
November 15, 2026
Time:
2:00 PM
3:30 PM
Event website: https://luma.com/yik8gd7e
Event type:
Workshops and Education
Originally posted to:
Rockridge District Association Events Calendar
Local Economy is a small, flexible community space on the College Avenue stretch of Rockridge, a few doors from East Bay Booksellers. It looks and feels like a bright neighborhood storefront set up for people to gather rather than a traditional venue. Inside, most things are organized around a long central table where talks, workshops, book clubs and game sessions all happen in close quarters. more...
