Last winter, The Hideout hosted a weekly gathering revolving around hot soup and some day old bread called, coincidentally, Soup and Bread. The premise was simple: local musicians, artists, Hideout employees, etc. make and donate every soup a week.

Then folks like you and me would head out in the dead of winter to eat said soup, have a drink or 3, and maintain human contact to spite the gods.

Through donations at these gatherings, The Hideout made over $2700 in 2008, which was donated to Greater Chicago Food Depository. Now with your help, soup and bread dinner organizer Martha Bayne is teaming with former Chicago Reader art director Sheila Sachs to put out a cookbook featuring last year’s soups.

Read all the details at the project’s kickstarter.com page. Needless to say this is a very worthwhile endeavor.

Check out the site and donate to help get this cookbook out. This is a great opportunity to not only help The Hideout, which is a significant part of Chicago’s music scene as well as just a great member of our community, but to help out those in need. Am I making up the expression “think globally, act locally”? If so, feel free to use it. If not, it is still very apt in this instance. We can discuss this over soup some day.