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Theodore Sturgeon had one of his characters say this about H. G. Wells in his 1948 short story Unite and Conquer; and Roger Lancelyn Green (in 1962) ascribed it as a saying of Professor Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, who was born 49 years after its first documented appearance in print.
Cabbage-based soup known as shchi. Shchi (Russian: щи) is a national dish of Russia. While commonly it is made of cabbage, dishes of the same name may be based on dock, spinach or nettle. The sauerkraut variant of cabbage soup is known to Russians as "sour shchi" ("кислые щи"), as opposed to fresh cabbage shchi. An idiom in Russian ...
Esau and the Mess of Pottage, by Jan Victors (1619–1676). In the King James Bible translation of the story of Jacob and Esau in the Book of Genesis, Esau, being famished, sold his birthright (the rights of the eldest son) to his twin brother Jacob in exchange for a meal of "bread and pottage of lentils" (Gen 25:29-34).
Genesis 25:26 [3] states that Esau was born before Jacob, who came out holding on to his older brother's heel as if he was trying to pull Esau back into the womb so that he could be firstborn. [4] The name Jacob means "he grasps the heel" which is a Hebrew idiom for deceptive behavior.
Okroshka is a cold soup of Russian origin. Partan bree is a Scottish soup made with crabmeat and rice. [21] Patsás is made with tripe in Greece. It is also cooked in Turkey and the Balkan Peninsula. "Peasants' soup" is a catch-all term for soup made by combining a diverse—and often eclectic—assortment of ingredients.
Vegetable soup dates to ancient history. A 5th-century Roman cookbook included a recipe for "a forerunner of onion soup." [15] Broth is mentioned by approximately the year 1000 and potage by the 1400s. [16] Clifford Wright has stated that cabbage soup was important in medieval Italian cuisine. [17]
Minestrone. Minestrone (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə s ˈ t r oʊ n i /, Italian: [mineˈstroːne]) or minestrone di verdure is a thick soup of Italian origin based on vegetables. [a] It typically includes onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, often legumes, such as beans, chickpeas or fava beans, and sometimes pasta or rice. [1]
Cabbage stew is a stew prepared using cabbage as a primary ingredient. Basic preparations of the dish use cabbage, various vegetables such as onion, carrot and celery, and vegetable stock. [ 1 ] Additional ingredients can include meats such as pork, sausage and beef, potatoes, noodles, diced apples, apple juice, chicken broth, herbs and spices ...