Lunch Break

This Tomato Soup Is Here to Provide Relief During Stressful Times

Garnished with grilled-cheese croutons, it’s a dish made for this moment.

Comforting tomato soup with nifty grilled cheese croutons.

Photographer: Paul Sirisalee

Editor’s Note: As more people are working from home, Bloomberg Pursuits is running a weekly Lunch Break column that highlights a notable recipe from a favorite cookbook and the hack that makes it genius.

Anyone who was thinking that the need for comfort food hit its apex during the first months of the pandemic did not anticipate election day in the U.S.