- 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