soups and chilis are excellent food for cold weather. cupping a bowl of hot soup in your frozen hands while the steam rises to almost kiss your cold cheeks warm you up as much as a roaring fire. each swallow of warm soup banishes all the wind-chill you felt walking from school to your front door. some very popular favorite soups for the autumn and winter are loaded baked potato soup, taco soup, chili (with meat or vegetarian), and lobster or crab bisque. a final benefit of making soup is that you often have plenty leftover to freeze and pull out and eat on another cold day without having to cook at all!

which sentence serves as the best introductory sentence to the above paragraph?
a) one of my very favorite soups is french onion soup because it's so salty and delicious!
b) people like to eat many different things in the cold parts of the year, especially sandwiches.
c) i don't like being cold, and so, in the winter, i make sure that i light up a few logs every night in our fireplace.
d) whenever autumn arrives each year, savvy cooks know that it's time to break out the soup recipes and start cooking!