Turtle soup has long been a part of New Orleans' Creole cuisine, and early gumbos from the 18th century even used sea turtle broth. But the city’s version of turtle soup is usually — and ...

Meanwhile, middle-class housewives tried their hand at turtle, too. Recipes for terrapin soup appear in cookbooks like the 1902 tome on food and household management, Mrs. Seely's Cookbook.

Since then, Woody said, he has been making turtle soup in 75-gallon batches, freezing some and selling the rest, from $4.25 a bowl to $45 a gallon. Yesterday I heard of another snapper soup.

Turns out, it was a snapping turtle of around 12 pounds. A snapping turtle strikes with the speed of a cottonmouth. Anything clamped in its sharp-edged jaws gets cut off.

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! When Lewis Carroll wrote this 1865 poem for his character, Mock Turtle in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” turtle soup was in American vogue.

"Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop?" _ Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland It's hard to believe that Carroll was referring to ...

Turtle Soup may catch some tourists visiting the French Quarter restaurant off-guard. The soup actually dates back to England in the 1800s and the version served at Brennan's shows signs of Greek ...

No place on earth makes turtle soup as well as we do. In most other places where turtle soup is found, it’s a light soup. In Europe, it’s almost always a clear soup. Two varieties of turtle soup ...