Turtle soup became a popular delicacy in the United States ... No dish was more prestigious than terrapin in the 19th-century United States,” Freedman writes in his 2020 book Man-Eating ...

In the 19th century, turtle soup was the hottest dish around. If you walked into an upscale New York City restaurant 150 years ago, there was one staple you’d be almost certain to see on the ...

By the 1920s, “real” turtle soup in cans started to be sold in everyday shops, ... “The focus is often on relatively poor people taking turtles to eat, ...

Turtle soup. If you're from certain parts of the world, it's a delicacy with a long tradition. However, deeply declining numbers of green sea turtles have become a global concern, right alongside ...

If you walked into an upscale New York City restaurant 150 years ago, there was one staple you’d be almost certain to see on the menu: turtle soup. But unlike some other food trends you may be ...