Soup Through the Ages

<p> As cooking advanced from simply placing wild grains seeds or meat in or near a fire to following some vague notion of food as a pleasing experience soup--the world's first prepared dish--became the unpretentious comfort food for all of civilization.</p><p> This book provides a comprehensive and worldwide culinary history of soup from ancient times. Appendices detail vegetables and herbs used in centuries-old soup traditions and offer dozens of recipes from the medieval era through World War II.</p>