Sentences with phrase «turtle soup»

The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of visitors is not invited to taste.

Diamondback terrapins, which were overharvested for turtle soup in the early 19th century, have been protected in New York on and off over the past decades.

Turtles in this group dwell in tropical and subtropical oceans; among their representatives are the modern Hawksbill Turtle and the Green Sea Turtle of turtle soup fame.

Dining on turtle soup may be less of a disappointment than playing through the nine stages in under five hours in Mutants in Manhattan.

Not long ago, it would have been easy to say exactly what that meant — gumbo, fried seafood, sherry - spiked turtle soup, maybe the garlicky bite of a roast beef po «boy or a classic Napoleon House muffuletta.

They had the best turtle soup I've ever eaten ($ 4.95 a cup, $ 9.50 a bowl).

It starts with Malossol caviar and iced vodka, progresses to fresh turtle soup and reaches its apotheosis with a superb steak, served with mushrooms and foie gras.

Likely to be turned into turtle soup.

Turtles, or tortoises, are rarely consumed today, but a select few cultures, primarily those in East Asia, still consider turtle soup, made from the flesh of the turtle, a delicacy.

Audie is helping Mrs. Finch make turtle soup.

In Sandy Point and Marsh Harbour, we were offered sea turtle soup.

And, as Alice learns, a mock turtle is what mock turtle soup is made of — that and a cow's head (but no tripe).

How we experience food stems as much from the thoughts scuttling through our minds as from the flavours hitting our tastebuds: 20th - century Canadians once jonesed for turtle soup — a dish that these days seems repulsive.

From the moment Grant Grill opened its doors in 1951, the San Diego restaurant was a hit... and it wasn't just the mock turtle soup (allegedly prepared with a generous two fingers of sherry!)

Her mock turtle soup has a special sumthin» sumthin'that makes me close my eyes and sigh every time I take a bite.

Adkins - Giese said turtles aren't like deer or other quick - breeding, high - population groups; the organization fears mass trapping for ethnic markets — turtle soup is considered a Chinese delicacy — could empty entire stretches of river.

We learn that Audie had fainted during the preparation of the turtle soup.

Sample jambalaya, turtle soup, bananas foster and gumbo in the region where it was born.

In Toronto, A local restauranteur was caught with 31 spiny softshell turtles in the freezer and actually had the turtle soup printed on the menu.