Talk:Bookbinder soup

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"Bookbinder''s soup is historic at mainly two restaurants, Old Original Bookbinder's restaurant and the Drake Hotel. There are several theories on how the soup traveled from Philadelphia to Chicago.  One theory is that the soup was a sign of social status for the hotel at the time (It has been said that President Taft hired a personal chef in the White House solely for the purpose of making Bookbinder's soup), and that the hotel found a way to retrieve the recipe directly from Old Original Bookbinder's in Philadelphia.  As a hotel that catered to the more wealthy and higher status humans on the earth, the Drake was rumored to want the soup in order to appeal to people such as the President of the United States of America."

Was this soup served at the Drake? Should that be noted? On an unrelated note, what is the source for the use of snapping turtles as an ingredient? Seems far-fetched or at least unusual. Candleabracadabra (talk) 00:49, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Common snapping turtles have historically been used for turtle soup in the United States as they're plentiful and sizable enough to use practically, unlike the green sea turtles that were used in the English and French version of the soup, which isn't all that different. The replacement by red snapper instead is the part where bookbinder soup seems to diverge from actual turtle soup, likely as a misunderstanding. As the article notes, the Bookbinder restaurant calls it "snapper soup", referring to the snapping turtle used in making it, but the Drake and other places making their own version use the fish instead. Contrast that with mock turtle soup, a British invention where the turtle is substituted by leftover parts from calves. Both are similar end results, but neither are quite the same as actual turtle soup. oknazevad (talk) 22:09, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

"Seafood" soup?
Since the turtles are freshwater, how did it become "seafood?" 2600:4040:7EDC:6400:B05A:B0A6:8570:AA67 (talk) 15:32, 15 February 2023 (UTC)