Soup for 1 is a weblog about food.  Its focus is on people like its author, Mike, who are single and living alone, and who have probably found themselves eating maple syrup on a whole-wheat wrap one night, rather than go to the trouble of making anything.

It is not meant to instruct you on how to cook.  There are far, far better resources out on the internet for that, and even better ones on television, in the bookstore or library, or tucked away in a secret box somewhere in your mother’s cupboards. To try to learn cooking from this website would be like trying to learn how to dance by watching everyone in a nightclub for six hours:  The only thing you meaningful that you will pick up is that it involves lots of motion, and could be fun, maybe, if you only knew what you were doing.

Soup For 1 is Mike out on the dance floor, figuring it out for himself.

Mike is a nearly-thirty-year-old aspiring cook, avid photographer, hopeful writer and huge-corporation-employed single man living on the outskirts of Toronto.  He discovered creative cooking in the fourth grade, when he discovered adding oil and vinegar to a deli sandwich all by himself and was roundly mocked by his peanut-butter-eating peers for doing so.

Just last year, he decided to get over the humiliation and start making food again, and has been passionately addicted to it ever since.  His hope is that his own enjoyment will prove infectious to others who might view feeding themselves as a chore rather than a pleasure; or, failing that, this weblog will give him at least one place to talk about cooking where nobody can tell him to shut up already.

Mike does exist on the internet elsewhere, including his alleged comedy website, Miscellaneous, etc.; the ultra-hip gaming weblog, Videogamey; and on the creativity archive, Deviant Art.