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Soup Swap!! at Local Economy

Soup Swap!!

Bring four labeled quarts of soup to review and share with other participants, then take turns choosing soups to bring home.

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November 15, 2026 · 2 PM – 3:30 PM

Local Economy, Oakland · Sold out · Free ·

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Swap four quarts of your soup for four different soups, with participants sharing why they chose their recipe before selecting in turn.

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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!

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