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The Story of Soup
The Appeal of Soups, Stews and Chowders
By Deborah C. Harding
are alternatives to piping hot soup, and are a refreshing change on a hot summer day.
The first European eating establishment was founded in Paris in 1765, and it served only soup. By government edicts this was the only type of sustenance the restaurant was allowed to serve. The sign over the door read "Boulanger vends les restaurants magiques" which means Boulanger (the name of the owner) sells magic restoratives. This is where the name restaurant came to mean something different in human society, and all because of soup.
The Pilgrims ate primarily soups and stews on the way over to the New World. They suspended a soup pot from the mast beams of the Mayflower and cooked onboard. In America, meats and vegetables were plentiful and the natives were proficient in producing soup from deer, pheasant, rabbit, buffalo, bear, pumpkin, squash, beans and corn.
