The story follows Hetty Pepper, a lower-class woman who has lost her job at a department store. Bargaining with a rib of beef she befriends a neighbor and a love interest, who donate ingredients for a stew greater than the sum of its parts.
Early in the story the waggish narrator remarks, "You can make oyster soup without oysters, turtle soup without turtles, coffee-cake without coffee, but you can't make beef stew without potatoes and onions," casting the beef rib in much the same role as the stone in Stone Soup.
The story follows Hetty Pepper, a lower-class woman who has lost her job at a department store. Bargaining with a rib of beef she befriends a neighbor and a love interest, who donate ingredients for a stew greater than the sum of its parts.
Early in the story the waggish narrator remarks, "You can make oyster soup without oysters, turtle soup without turtles, coffee-cake without coffee, but you can't make beef stew without potatoes and onions," casting the beef rib in much the same role as the stone in Stone Soup.
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