The First Soup

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 6,000 Year Old Soup Recipe Reveals Unlikely Ingredients
Archaeologists have uncovered a 6,000 year old soup recipe which has a really unlikely ingredient, hippopotamus meat. The first soup was made of hippopotamus and it was seemed like a very popular dish at that time. Other ingredients in this amazing recipe are Sparrows, vegetables, lentils and lots of different types of spices. The word “soup” comes from the “Suppare” which is the Latin word for a type of dish consisting of meat and vegetables cooked in water. Since ancient times, the number of soup recipes has increased and now numbers in hundreds of thousands. Every country and civilization has their own soup recipe which defines their culture. From famous chicken soup to the exotic bird’s nest soup in Asia, soups are one of the major types of cooking, people love eating.
The archaeological discovery of this amazing recipe is an important leap in understanding how people started using utensils, fire, and creativity to produce cooking delicacies. Soup and recipes for it has been with us ever since and it is an important thing in order to understand ancient human lifestyles, thousands of years ago. Also how we look as soups now, they are only made out of our mother sauces and without them we wouldn't have anything.