It's not every day that a once popular and cherished food becomes outlawed, but that's what happened to this soup with a rich ...

They later sampled a hand grenade cocktail they described was like a strong slushie, then visited Mother’s Restaurant to try étouffée and Pascal’s Manale for turtle soup.

When I heard about the local dish of turtle soup in my younger years, my initial reaction was “How can you eat turtles!? That’s awful!” Fast forward a decade or so, and my stance has changed to “Eh, ...

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 ...

An 18th century cook book containing a stomach-churning recipe for mock turtle soup has been discovered in a cardboard box. A Mrs Casters meticulously jotted down 160 recipes in the 229-year-old ...

When Amy King came to New Orleans on a family trip, she was intrigued by an item she saw on two menus: turtle soup. “Is there turtle meat in the soup?” she asked after returning home to Kansas ...

Turtle soup was a favourite of royalty and presidents, with William Howard Taft keeping a specialist chef on White House payroll who knew how to prepare a dish known as “Taft Terrapin Soup”.

Two beloved snapping turtles were taken from a creek outside a Houston bar by one of its customers, who was planning to turn the animals into soup before outraged commenters on a social media post ...

All of the sailors waited impatiently for the cook to decide it was time to make turtle soup, as the Overton made its way up the Hudson River. Several times the shelled reptile was threatened by ...