"On a cold fall or winter's day, nothing warms up your insides like a hot bowl of soup or stew, served with lots of crusty bread and plenty of butter. For some, only chicken noodle soup will do, while others prefer minestrone, Italian sausage, or French onion. But it would be very unlikely that today, anyone would reach for, say, a steaming-hot bowl of turtle soup or a dish of Hoover stew."
"It might seem strange to some now, given it is illegal in most countries to hunt sea turtles, but the marine animals used to be eaten quite regularly by European sailors during the British empire. Sailors ate them because they were easy to catch and cook, and by the mid-1700s, rich people had also developed a taste for turtles, which they ate in soup."
Many traditional soups and stews that were once popular have fallen out of fashion. Key reasons include the disappearance of essential ingredients and changing circumstances that originally made certain dishes popular, such as the Great Depression or World War II. Turtle soup, once eaten regularly by European sailors and later enjoyed by the wealthy, is now largely off menus because hunting sea turtles became illegal and many species are endangered. Hoover stew and other wartime or depression-era dishes lost appeal when their practical necessity ended. Classic soups like chicken noodle, minestrone, Italian sausage, and French onion remain widely enjoyed.
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