After a half-century serving soup and burgers in Manhattan, the Cozy Soup N Burger Diner closed this past summer. I look back on my first (and las) visit a few months earlier.

Matzo Ball Soup has been termed “Jewish penicillin,” for its ability to revive the ill and keep the healthy from getting sick. We wanted to order some for delivery the other day, and it turns out we live in a matzo ball soup desert.