Repast as Prologue

By Warren Rojas

Whether you wish to chase away winter’s fleeting chill or simply live to sup seasonal splendor, confidence is high Christine Ilich’s got a homemade soup for you.

The trained chef may have cut her teeth in NYC restaurants, but she seems to have found her true calling in her Front Royal farmhouse—the launching pad for her Heirloom Kitchen enterprise.

Ilich has developed an artisan soup catalog that includes garden-fresh entries like: an African sweet potato-peanut-ginger-cilantro blend (her top seller), curried lentils with cilantro and apricots (another local favorite) and butternut squash with apples and sage.

Heirloom Kitchen soups are available at the Winchester and Purcellville farmers markets and Berryville’s Midas Touch. To learn more, please visit: www.facebook.com/pages/Heirloom-Kitchen/112682954142.

(March 2010)

Tags: chili, Christine Ilich, Heirloom Kitchen, homemade, soup