Wolfgang Puck, the iconic, Austrian-born chef, has been a recognizable name and face within, and outside of, the culinary realm for nearly 50 years. ... Vegetable Soup with Sweet Basil.

Wolfgang Puck: Main course soups make autumn dinners easy, inexpensive. Updated: Nov. 07, 2013, 3:59 p.m. ... Within half an hour or so, we'd have a robust soup, which she sometimes served chunky, ...

All you have to do is peel a potato and drop it into the pot. Allow the potato to simmer in the soup for about 15-20 minutes. As the potato cooks, it will absorb some of the excess salt from the soup.