ISSUE 4, Soup, Part 4: Mock Turtle

Black Bean Soup

Black Bean Soup/ Mock Turtle Soup

In the nineteenth century the pinnacle of soup cookery were the turtle soups—green turtle soup made from the huge oceanic tortoises harvested in the Caribbean—terrapin soup and stew harvested form the Native turtle of the eastern coast of the United States.  Hotels and Coffeehouses advertised the availability of these so…