A Savory Soup

If you think barley and bean soup sounds humdrum, try Canter’s version. You’ll change your mind. This is real comfort food, composed of rich-tasting chicken broth, barley, dried lima beans, potato chunks, carrots, celery and an occasional piece of chicken gizzard. Canter’s bakery will provide bread to go with the soup. Or take home a golden-glazed potato knish from the deli counter.

Barley and bean soup, $2.98 a pint, $5.95 a quart; potato knishes, $2.10 each at Canter’s, 419 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles. (213) 651-2030.