Beyond the Trivia-National Soup Month (2024)

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Beyond the Trivia-National Soup Month? ›

What better time to enjoy a warm bowl of soup than in cold weather? That's why January was chosen to celebrate National Soup Month.

Archaeologists speculate the first soup might have been made by Neanderthals, boiling animal bones to extract fat essential for their diet and drinking the broth.

Women are twice as likely to order soup for lunch as men. Americans eat more than 10 billion bowls of soup each year. How about the hippo variety? The earliest archaeological evidence for the consumption of soup dates back to 6000 BC, and it was hippopotamus soup.

January is National Soup Month!

National Homemade Soup Day is celebrated on February 4 every year.

Until the arrival of the term soup, such food had been termed broth or pottage. It was customarily served with the meat or vegetable dishes with which it had been made, and (as the dreivation of soup suggest) was poured over sops of bread or toast (the ancestors of modern croutons).

In Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (Bangkok), there is an award-winning restaurant called Wattana Panich, where you can order and then eat a beef and goat soup that is 49 years old.

The word soup derives from the Latin word 'suppa', which refers to bread soaked in broth. It was popularised in the 1600s by the French 'soupe'. The word is also found in Proto-Germanic language as 'sup', which means 'to make liquid'.

A soup's quality is determined by its flavor, appearance and texture. A good soup should be full-flavored, with no off or sour tastes. Flavors from each of the soup's ingre- dients should blend and complement, with no one flavor overpowering another. Con- sommés should be crystal clear.

Which state eats the most soup? ›

Instead, it's the people in Salt Lake City, Utah, and drizzly Portland, Ore., who consume more condensed soup on a per capita basis than residents of any other U.S. city. The people of Portland and Salt Lake City eat 66 percent more Campbell's soup than the national average.

Soup is normally associated with fall and winter but there are many soups that are delicious during the summer months (not just gazpacho) and comforting.

The tradition of preparing this soup every Saturday has become an integral part of the local culture, a culinary ritual that transcends any particular household. Regardless of which Jamaican home you visit on a Saturday, you can be assured of encountering a large pot simmering with the flavoursome Saturday soup.

With a tradition of rich and famous soups, China has dishes that mix different vegetables and meats in light and aromatic broths. One of the most famous soups in the country is Wonton Soup, originally from the Canton region.

Soup Market size was valued at USD 23.5 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 23.5 by 2030, and grow at a CAGR of 3.2% over the forecast period 2023-2030.

The earliest evidence of "soup" dates back to 6000 B.C.E.

That was around the time the Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent region was being inhabited (modern day Iraq), one of the first civilizations in recorded history. The soup of choice? Hippopotamus!

An ancient soup maker could have simply dug a pit, lined it with animal skin or gut, filled his "pot" with water and dropped in some hot rocks.

Anyplace where people had chickens and pots of water, they probably made a version of chicken soup. The wild jungle fowl that became or domesticated chicken was common in India and other parts of Asia (China, Vietnam and Thailand). So the first chicken soup was probably an Asian style meal.

Meat and vegetable soups were the most common soups consumed in medieval times. These soups were made with a combination of vegetables such as carrots, turnips, and cabbage, along with meat such as beef or pork.