Turtle soup became a popular delicacy in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the dish appearing on restaurant menus everywhere. Mock turtle soup became popular as people looked ...

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 ...

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.

Turtle went from small-scale fishing by individual fishermen to providing soup for the well-heeled or well-connected, and finally to industrial over-exploitation, with turtle appearing in cans at ...

To be honest, I had no idea mock turtle soup was a Cincinnati thing until recently when I read a 2017 piece on the popular website Atlas Obscura titled How America Fell Into –and Out of – Love ...

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 ...