Carters Broccoli Soup

Here is a from scratch healthy soup that tastes great and is such an honor to serve. Its creaminess comes from potato not cream. This week we lost a great historian, Charles Carter. He was the most respected expert on the Stonewall Uprising. It is fitting to dedicate this to him. Read a quick story after the recipe.

Fresh broccoli, caned diced potato, some red onion and garlic and you have a soup much better than the salt loaded red and white cans. Try it for rave reviews.

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons butter, or vegetable oil

1 red onion, chopped

1 stalk celery, chopped

4 cloves garlic, chopped

3 cups chicken broth

4 heads of fresh broccoli

2 cans diced potatoes drained

1 can evaporated milk

1 tsp old bay seasonings

1 egg yolk

Directions:

Rinse and soak the broccoli in vinegar water for 10 mins. Stems and all.

Chop off the florets divide by half in two bowls

Chop up the stems into ½ inch cubes Place in one of the bowls.

Chop the onion, chop the celery, chop the garlic.

In the pot heat butter and add the onion, carrot, & celery and cook for about 2 minutes. Or until sweated.

Pour in the stock and the potatoes. Heat to simmer. Add the stems and florets from the one bowl. (reserve the other florets). Add the Old Bay seasoning and garlic powder.

Let simmer for 15 – 20 minutes.

Using an immersion blender:

Puree the soup and blend until smooth. Stir in the can of evaporated milk. Taste test for salt, pepper and old bay. 

Once this is nice and thick, add the reserved florets. Let simmer for another 5 - 10 minutes. Taste test and adjust any seasonings.

On way to the table, stir in an egg yolk.

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David Carter

Charles David Carter was born on Dec. 2, 1952, in Jesup, Ga. His father, William, was a merchant, and his mother, a homemaker.

After graduating from Wayne County High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in religion at Emory University in Atlanta in 1974. In 1978 he earned a master’s degree in South Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he became active in gay rights issues.

Carter, who was gay, first became involved in the gay rights movement while a graduate student in Madison. Among other things, Carter organized a 1977 dance that raised more than $1,000 to support a Dade County, Fla., gay rights group that was fighting a campaign by anti-gay advocate Anita Bryant to overturn the Florida county’s gay rights law.

A short time later, Carter co-founded an organization in Madison that led a successful effort to prevent anti-gay advocates from overturning Madison’s gay rights law, making Madison one of the few places in the country in the late 1970s and early 1980s to stop an effort to repeal a pro-LGBTQ nondiscrimination law.

Carter later became involved in the successful lobbying effort that made Wisconsin the first state in the nation to pass a law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Mr. Carter, moved to New York in 1985. He said that one of the first positive statements he encountered about being gay was in an article about the poet Allen Ginsberg that said he was both gay and an American treasure. He later met Ginsberg and struck up an acquaintance that resulted, in 2001, in “Allen Ginsberg: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996,” which Mr. Carter edited after Ginsberg’s death in 1997.

Mr. Carter’s best-known book, “Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution,” was published in 2004.

Mr. Carter first became interested in writing about the Stonewall Event, amid publicity about the 25th anniversary of the event.

“It is to the gay movement what the fall of the Bastille is to the unleashing of the French Revolution,” he said.

The younger generation might not have fully appreciated how oppressive life was for gay men and women in the New York of the 1960s. Mr. Carter conjured the times bluntly.
“By 1966 over one hundred men were arrested each week for ‘homosexual solicitation’ as a result of police entrapment,” he wrote. “In the mid-1960s — the very time when a wave of freedom, openness, and demand for change was cresting — New York City increased its enforcement of anti-homosexual laws to such an extent that it amounted to an attempt to impose police-state conditions onto a homosexual ghetto.”

Even before the book came out, the research he was doing became an important part of a quest by Mr. Carter and others to have the two buildings on Christopher Street where the Stonewall Inn was situated, and the surrounding streets, added to the National Register of Historic Places. That status was granted in 1999. The site was designated a National Monument in 2016.

Mr. Carter became a go-to voice on Stonewall and the rights movement it helped advance. In 2002, for instance, opposing changes to a PATH station in the area, he told The Times, “When you have a very important battlefield — Gettysburg, Vicksburg or Custer’s last stand — you don’t want to alter any part of it.”

Interviewing numerous participants and reconstructing a timeline of those six tumultuous days, Mr. Carter debunked some of the standard myths: He did not, for instance, find any evidence that the funeral of Judy Garland earlier that week had somehow touched off the disturbances, as had sometimes been claimed.

And he sorted through differing versions of who within the L.G.B.T.Q. world had touched off the uprising and furthered it. He gave particular credit to, among others, an unidentified lesbian in male dress (often identified as Stormé DeLarverie) who first resisted the police and several transgender people, as well as gay youths living on the street in the neighborhood.

“All available evidence,” he wrote, “leads us to conclude that the Stonewall Riots were instigated and led by the most despised and marginal elements of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community.”

In a 2019 article in Gay City News, Mr. Carter reflected on the divisiveness that had developed around the event as different groups and individuals claimed credit for being linchpins. And he argued for perspective.

“I think it is worth noting that during the Uprising participants were not thinking in the neat categories we employ today,” he wrote.

“My research convinces me that at the time of Stonewall, there was simply a feeling of our community standing up as one together to protect itself,” he added. “Perhaps someday that feeling of oneness will return.”

Carter’s book was the basis for the PBS American Experience film “Stonewall Uprising,” which won a Peabody Award. 

In 1998, six years before the book’s release, Carter received a grant to put together material from his research on Stonewall to support an effort to place the Stonewall riots site on the National Register of Historic Places, where it was placed in 1999. A year later the site was named a National Historic Landmark.

In 2014, Carter served as the historic adviser to the National Park Service in the successful effort to have the Stonewall site become a National Monument.

Shortly after his Stonewall book was published, Carter began work on what he considered his next major project – a definitive biography of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny, the co-founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. in the early 1960s.

For more than 10 years, Carter conducted extensive research on Kameny’s role as one of the first known pre-Stonewall activists who declared homosexuals to be a minority group deserving of full civil rights.

It couldn’t immediately be determined whether others might assemble Carter’s findings and documentation on Kameny, including recorded interviews with dozens of people who knew Kameny, into the book Carter was unable to finish.

Eric Danzer, Carter’s longtime friend, said at the time of his passing Carter was working as senior medical editor at Saatchi & Saatchi, a global communications firm.

“In his medical editing and his LGBT history work, he showed a passion for accuracy,” Danzer said. “In his LGBT history work, he was painstakingly methodical in assembling the facts, passionate about following them wherever they led to make sure that our history is recorded accurately.”

Added Danzer, “He had great respect for the subjects of his work and felt a great responsibility to preserve the legacy of subjects whose contributions were generally not well known, but should be, like Frank Kameny.”

Carter died on May 1 of this year at his home in Manhattan. He was 67.

His brother, William, said the cause was a heart attack. He is also survived by longtime friend Eric Danzer.