A Lenten Soup So Good the Memory of It Lasts a Whole Year
Source: New York Times
More than 40 years ago, a statue of the Virgin of El Quinche was brought to the United States by a family from Ecuador. To celebrate its arrival at the now-shuttered St. Ann’s Church in Lower Manhattan, Rosa Cartagena and a team of women started a new tradition at the church: making and selling fanesca, a soup so labor-intensive that it is served for only a limited time during the Lenten season.For decades, the…
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