Fun Facts: Soup & Salad
- 1Chicken and rice soup was always requested by Frank Sinatra to be in his dressing rooms before he went on stage.
- 2There is an old Yiddish saying of "Troubles are easier to take with soup than without."
- 3Ladies' meals in the French Court of Louis XI were mainly soup; they feared that chewing food would put wrinkles on their faces.
- 4Andy Warhol had soup daily for 20 years, hence his famous soup paintings.
- 5The first representation of salad was found in paintings in 4500 BC on Egyptian tombs.
- 6Lettuce was introduced to the new world by Christopher Columbus & went into cultivation in the US from then forward.
- 7John Evelyn was a 17th century horticulturist who introduced the vegetable to England.