Soup Through the Ages: A Culinary History with Period Recipes by Victoria R. Rumble [0786439610, Format: PDF]


  • Title: Soup Through the Ages: A Culinary History with Period Recipes
  • Autor: Victoria R. Rumble
  • Pages: 280
  • Publisher (Publication Date): McFarland (June 13, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0786439610
  • Download File Format: PDF


As cooking advanced from simply placing wild grains, seeds, or meat in or near a fire to following some vague notion of food as a pleasing experience, soup–the world’s first prepared dish–became the unpretentious comfort food for all of civilization. This book provides a comprehensive and worldwide culinary history of soup from ancient times. Appendices detail vegetables and herbs used in centuries-old soup traditions and offer dozens of recipes from the medieval era through World War II