Dried Cabbage, Duck Gizzard and Pork Lung Soup

Why people make this soup

Nourilo tells the story plainly: he had been lecturing too much, his throat was sore and his voice had gone hoarse, so he turned to food therapy to recover. Seeing some clean, well-washed pork lungs hanging at the butcher, and thinking that autumn is the season to look after the lungs, he went with the old idea of “nourishing like with like.” He brought home a pork lung and cooked it with dried cabbage, fresh bok choy and dried duck gizzard. The result was a clean, naturally sweet, throat-soothing soup that left his throat far more comfortable. The “gold and silver greens” (jin yin cai) simply means using both dried and fresh cabbage together.