In the 19th century, turtle soup was the hottest dish around. If you walked into an upscale New York City restaurant 150 years ago, there was one staple you’d be almost certain to see on the menu: ...

When Amy King came to New Orleans on a family trip, she was intrigued by an item she saw on two menus: turtle soup. “Is there turtle meat in the soup?” she asked after returning home to Kansas City, ...

An 18th century cook book containing a stomach-churning recipe for mock turtle soup has been discovered in a cardboard box. A Mrs Casters meticulously jotted down 160 recipes in the 229-year-old book ...

Never having eaten turtle before, the first thing Edward Kim did when he got a few pounds of snapping-turtle meat was panfry some. “I cooked it really quickly—I saw how quickly it was tensing up, and ...