For those of you who have tried our soups, you know we take soup very seriously. For those of you about to try our soups, you will soon discover - we are very passionate about soup!
Great anytime, anywhere!
Lentil
New England Clam Chowder
Country Vegetable
Chicken Pomodoro
Cream of Potato
Chicken Corn Chowder
Yankee White Bean
And you thought you knew soup...
In America, the first colonial cookbook was published by William Parks in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1742. It was based on Eliza Smith's Compleat Housewife, or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion. It included recipes for soups and bisques.
Although the word chowder is thought to have originated from the French words for "cauldron" - "chadriere" or "chaudron" - there are many cuisines throughout the world that have their own version of this vegetable-laden, stew-like soup.
Soup has been around for quite a long time. The word itself is thought to derive from the Old French verb "souper "which means to have supper or the evening meal.
During the court of Louis IX in the fifteenth century, the ladies of the French court subsisted primarily on soups because they thought chewing would give them wrinkles.
Restoratifs (from which the word "restaurant" comes) was first used in France in the 18th century, to describe a highly concentrated, inexpensive soup, sold by street vendors and advertised as a way to cure physical exhaustion.
And while "restaurants" have come a long way since then, our soup remains a wonderful way to cure "physical exhaustion"!
The origins of the word soup go back to broth. Deriving from the Frankish word "suppa" or "sop", which means to "soak" or "dip", it refers to a dish where bread is soaked up by a liquid. From this, the word soup evolved. In French, it is "soupe;" in Spanish, "sopa;" in Dutch, "soep" and in Italian, "zuppa".
American loves soup, enjoying more than 10 billion bowls of soup yearly.
Former U.S. Presidents have all shared a love of soup. John F. Kennedy loved the Fish Chowder of his Boston childhood while George H. Bush preferred New England Clam Chowder. Vegetable beef soup was the favorite of both Bill Clinton and Dwight Eisenhower.
James Garfield wins the award for perhaps the strangest favorite of all: squirrel soup! We will continue to, politely and as graciously as possible, decline consumer requests for a New England Country Soup version of squirrel soup!
The earliest evidence of humans eating soup comes from 6000 B.C. The main ingredient was hippopotamus.
Lentils were one of the original crops cultivated by man and have been used in various dishes, including soups, for over 8000 years.
In ancient Greece, as early as 600 B.C., a soup made of peas, lentils and beans was sold at stalls on the street.