A hungry traveler has nothing to eat: just a pot and a stone. He starts a fire, fills the pot with water, drops in the stone, ...
The base of the soup starts out with a drizzle of olive oil and lots of minced garlic. Just when the garlic starts to smell ...
Remember the folk tale of stone soup? The CliffsNotes version goes like this: A poor, hungry man begs for food from others, who all refuse to help him until he tells them he can make soup from a stone ...