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Maradona’s childhood home becomes soup kitchen for those in need | Football News

Maradona’s childhood home becomes soup kitchen for those in need | Football News

Published On 14 Apr 202614 Apr 2026 The late Argentinian football legend’s childhood home has been converted into a soup kitchen serving those affected by President Javier Milei’s austerity measures. At 523 Amazor street in Fiorito, a Buenos Aires suburb where the “Golden Boy” experienced extreme poverty growing up, locals can now receive meals and clothing assistance. This neighbourhood of about 50,000 residents living in modest brick homes features numerous murals commemorating the career of the iconic number 10, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 60. As a criminal negligence trial begins on Tuesday against the seven-member medical team responsible for Maradona’s final care following brain surgery, his childhood community continues his legacy of compassion. Neighbours visit “Diego’s house” carrying containers that volunteers fill with chicken stew and other meals prepared in large cauldrons in the yard, while cumbia music – Maradona’s preferred genre – plays in the background. “Diego would say there is a lot of hunger and we have to help, because the need is so great,” explained Diego Gavilan, …

Maradona’s former home is transformed into a soup kitchen in Argentina

Maradona’s former home is transformed into a soup kitchen in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, March 31 : Every week, hundreds of people line up to fill a plastic container with food in an unlikely place: the humble home where Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona was born. The house in Villa Fiorito, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, no longer belongs to the family of Maradona, who died in 2020 after a heart attack, but for the last month, its current owner has lent its dirt yard to a group of volunteers who light a grill and cook for neighbors. Last Thursday, Maria Torres stirred a stew in two large pots while several others peeled potatoes and chopped pieces of chicken. A mural painted on the house’s facade depicts the soccer player next to the words, “The house of god.” Poverty has been trending downward in Argentina, with official statistics showing it dropping to 31.6 per cent in the first half of 2025 from 52.9 per cent in the first half of 2024, when President Javier Milei sharply devalued the peso and inflation spiked. …

The last days of 99-year-old Taix: stolen art and French onion soup lines

The last days of 99-year-old Taix: stolen art and French onion soup lines

They’re stealing the photos, the posters and even the light fixtures: Taix fans are waiting in lines that sometimes stretch to Sunset Boulevard for a final taste of the restaurant’s French classics, and even taking mementos off the walls. The last days of Taix — pronounced “tex” — are frenetic. Servers ferry platters of frog legs swimming in cream sauce, mountainous portions of duck à l’orange, crocks of French onion soup and the iconic chicken pot pie that spells “TAIX” in pastry through a sprawling maze of dining rooms, banquet halls, roomy circular booths and tables under dark wood beams. On March 29, to make way for a controversial six-story housing complex, the Taix family will close the 99-year-old restaurant’s distinctive chalet-style building, which it has occupied since moving from downtown L.A. in 1962. It’s not the end of Taix — the plan is for the restaurant to return in a smaller format at the development’s base with some of the original design elements. But it’s the end of Taix as L.A. has known it …

How business students learn to make ethical decisions by studying a soup kitchen in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods

How business students learn to make ethical decisions by studying a soup kitchen in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods

(The Conversation) — For the past decade I have volunteered at St. Francis Inn, a soup kitchen in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Kensington, for those not from Philly, has long had a reputation for potent but affordable street drugs. Interstate 95 and the Market-Frankford elevated commuter train line provide easy access to the neighborhood for buyers and sellers, and abandoned buildings offer havens for drug use and other illicit activity. St. Francis Inn Ministries, which was founded by two Franciscan friars in 1979, serves sit-down breakfast and dinner for thousands of people each year, many of whom suffer from poverty, homelessness and substance use disorder. It also runs Marie’s Closet, a charity that provides free used clothing and housewares. These ministries are operated by a core team of nine full-time members, hundreds of volunteers from local high schools and colleges, and an ad hoc team of folks from many walks of life. In the years I’ve been volunteering at St. Francis, significant changes have occurred in Kensington, including gentrification, soaring housing prices and increased …

Make a soup out of (almost) anything

Make a soup out of (almost) anything

Grab your coat. Grab your scarf. Come take a walk with me. We duck into the nearest deli—the kind with a handwritten soup board and a line that moves just slowly enough to read it twice. There’s a creamy baked potato soup, pale and plush, freckled with salty bacon. Chicken and wild rice, sturdy and reassuring. Tomato, brightened with a final drizzle of garlic oil, like punctuation. If we linger here with a pen and paper — just for fun — and begin to take these soups apart, something interesting happens. Patterns emerge. Every good soup, no matter how humble or ornate, seems to rely on at least a few of the same quiet categories: something aromatic to begin, something hearty to anchor it, something savory for depth. There’s often softness, too, ingredients that relax into the pot, and finally, a finishing touch, the small flourish that makes the whole thing feel complete. Maybe oil, herbs, cream, acid. The soup equivalent of putting on lipstick before leaving the house. This isn’t just my fondness for …

The best soup makers in the UK for healthy, thrifty meals – tested | Soup

The best soup makers in the UK for healthy, thrifty meals – tested | Soup

When our bodies crave something nourishing, few things fit the bill better than a bowl of thrifty, healthy and comforting homemade soup. Having a few soup recipes in your back pocket is an affordable and easy way to up your vegetable intake. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. However, homemade soups can be time-consuming to make – what with having to saute the veg, stand over the pan as you add liquid and simmer, before you finally blend into the finished soup. Not so with a snazzy soup maker, which will handle much of that faff with the press of a single button. And most of them take less than half an hour to run the programme from start to finish. So, if healthy home-cooked lunches and dinners are on the cards for 2026, a soup-making machine could be a useful investment. I’ve spent months testing a range of the best soup makers to find out if they’re worth it, and I …