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Every year on April 5, the world celebrates International Soup Day.
The very word "soup" - soupe - is considered French, but comes from late Latin - suppa - "bread soaked in broth."

Reliable evidence has been found that back in the 1st century BC. e. Soups were made in Asia.
In China, there is a mention of cookbook, whose age is about 4700 years, and a significant part of the pages in it is devoted to the "Soups" section.

In the city of Sparta, known for its harsh rules and customs, they also prepared a specific taste of "Black Broth" - from the meat and blood of a pig, as well as vinegar.
And the warriors of the Middle Ages, being on campaigns, ate wine soup - more precisely, they were pieces of bread soaked in wine.

The biggest lovers of the first course are the inhabitants of France. In the Middle Ages, French peasants ate soup twice a day (although they may not have had any other options).

Previously, if soup was not prepared in the house, it was believed that this was a very poor family, and doctors often prescribed broth or light soup chik.

Many rightly consider soup to be the elixir of life, as it has many healing properties. Meat broths perfectly cope with colds and strengthen the body, warm vegetables have a calming effect, and cold ones are perfectly refreshing.
Worth mentioning about others miraculous properties various soups. So, borsch has long been prepared as love potion for men, Chinese chowder is excellent tool maintaining the balance of yin and yang.

A bean soup actually once saved Geneva! It happened in the 17th century, when the troops of the Duke of Savoy attacked the city. On the night of the enemy advance, a woman decided to take her husband hot food. Approaching the city wall, she noticed a crouching enemy, and, not at a loss, poured the scalding contents of the plate onto the villain. He reacted so violently to the surprise that he woke up the sleeping guards of the city. In honor of the brave townswoman, city festivities are still held annually in Geneva, where everyone is treated to vegetable stew.

How is this pleasant holiday celebrated? Everything is simple! On this day, they cook some very tasty and not traditional first dish, for example gazpacho soup, airy broccoli soup with the addition of cheese, rich shurpa is also suitable, as well as salmon ear, Italian vegetable soup, which is added to enhance sensations, will also come in handy fragrant sauce pesto. You can cook Japanese crab soup or international pea soup on International Soup Day. smoked bacon, German thick "eintopf" is tasty, into which everything that is in the refrigerator is thrown, but you can also remember about the Russian prison or hearty and very healthy Ukrainian borsch With sour cherry plum.

SOUPS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD

AINTOPF
Most famous soup Germany is cooked very thick and in fact can be both the first and second course at the same time. Almost everything that is in the refrigerator is added to it, but first of all - sausages, sausages, others meat products, and then vegetables, cabbage, beans, etc.

BUYABES
For the first time it was prepared by fishermen from the French city of Marseille, using the remains of unsold fish. That is why for a long time Bouillabaisse was considered a cheap soup. In our time, eat a plate of such a first in good restaurant can be expensive, as they like to add a lot of seafood there. At home, the main thing is to cook broth from many types sea fish, add vegetables and spices and serve with garlic sauce and crispy bread.

VICHYSOISE
Another soup invented in France. Leek (and other types of onions) fried with potatoes are stewed in chicken broth, and then whipped with a blender with cream in mashed potatoes. The table is served cold.

GAZPACHO
A Spanish soup invented, according to legend, by muleteers who prepared a dish from leftover food. For him, vegetables, primarily tomatoes, are mashed. Cucumbers are also added there, Bell pepper, garlic, onion, olive oil, vinegar, salt and spices. Gazpacho is served cold and is most often eaten in hot weather. Looks like a gazpacho spanish soup salmorejo: also made with tomato and served cold, but bread is also added to it, due to which the dish becomes much thicker.

DOVGA
It is prepared in Azerbaijan from curdled milk or another variant sour milk, rice or chickpeas and greens. Then add ready-made meatballs. Dovga can be eaten both hot and cold.

CALAKEITTO
The second name is milk ear. This soup is traditionally prepared in Finland and Karelia from white fish with milk or cream. Flour is also added here, giving the soup density.

MINESTRONE
This light soup was invented in Italy. Its components are fresh vegetables that are pre-fried, and vegetable broth. Sometimes rice is also added to the minestrone.

TARATOR
Same cold soup but from Bulgaria. It is made from sour milk, to which chopped cucumbers are added, walnuts, garlic, dill, vegetable oil and spices.

REFRIGERATOR
It can be considered a "version" of beetroot. The refrigerator is common in several cuisines at once: Belarusian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian. It is made from a decoction of beets, vegetables, boiled eggs, greens and kefir (or sour cream). It is always served cold, and therefore it is traditionally prepared in the summer heat.

No wonder the soup is considered number one! Hungarians, for example, are so proud of their signature goulash soup that they have declared it a “monument of cultural heritage” and placed it under UNESCO protection.
And the main "supoed" countries, by the way, are Russia and China.

Traditional Russian dish- borscht (Photo: OlegDoroshenko, depositphotos.com)

The history of soup is as old as the history of cooking. The word "soup" comes from the French "soupe", and it comes from the Latin "suppa", which means bread soaked in a decoction or broth. However, soup as a dish in today's sense, which has become a daily meal, developed five centuries ago with the advent of strong dishes that could withstand the cooking process. At the same time, in cold countries and regions, the soup appeared much earlier. For example, in ancient China it was brewed 100 years before our era.

But we are talking about soup, not boiling, as a way of preparing food for the purpose of heat treatment products. After all, soup is a “set” of ingredients that create a general taste and composition. And although the methods of cooking, traditions and recipes of soups developed earlier, soups became widespread in Europe and Russia by the 18th century. Later, this dish spread throughout the world. By the way, in Rus' liquid meals first called stews. The word "soup" appeared only in times. Broth in ancient times was called meat, fish and vegetable broths.
IN national cuisine Every country has recipes for this dish. Soup is prepared both in summer and in winter period. Soups help to get enough and restore strength, increase tone. And doctors are confident in the usefulness of soups even during illness, prescribing light broths and vegetable soups to restore strength. According to doctors, soups have a beneficial effect on digestive system body, stimulating the production of enzymes and gastric juice, are the prevention of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and even oncological diseases. But it is important to remember that you can not abuse meat, fish and mushroom soups those who have hyperacidity gastric juice and people prone to kidney stones and gout.

In the national cuisine of any country, there are recipes for this dish (Photo: Nitrub, depositphotos.com)

There are approximately 150 types of soups in the world, which are divided into more than a thousand types, with each type having variants. Yes, researcher culinary arts indicates 24 varieties of cabbage soup and 18 varieties of fish soup.

The main types of soups are classified into the following categories:
1. By serving temperature - cold and hot soups;
2. By calorie content - light and satisfying (rich);
3. According to the ingredients used - vegetarian (lean) and soups, which include components of animal origin;
4. According to the technology of preparation - boiled soups and raw; puree soups; dressing or thickened soups;
5. To taste - salty, neutral, sweet.

Which soup recipe is the most correct and popular is difficult to answer. It all depends on the country and personal taste. Soups contain a wide variety of components: poultry or animal meat, vegetables, mushrooms, fish, cereals, beans, dairy products, flour products, herbs, fruits, berries, spices. Depending on the ingredients of the dish and personal preferences, soups are served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. For example, milk soup also suitable for morning reception food, and vegetable and meat are often served during the day or in the evening.

Japanese miso soup (Photo: lenyvavsha, depositphotos.com)

As for the “nationalities” of soups, among the brightest representatives of Russian cuisine are borscht and cabbage soup, hodgepodge and ear, okroshka and pickle ... Also known Georgian soup kharcho and spanish gazpacho, French onion soup and Danish pea soup with smoked meats. lovers oriental cuisine know japanese soup miso, Chinese hogo and Vietnamese pho. And this list can be continued for a long time, there are thousands of soup recipes in the world. And among the unusual ones there are Japanese noodle soup and chocolate, Caribbean - from iguana, Polish beer soup and African - from coffee, bananas and mud from the foot of Kilimanjaro.

Therefore, celebrating the International Soup Day, of course, traditional feast, give preference to the usual recipe soup, but refined and unconventional. Bon appetit!

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In this regard, today is no exception to the rule. The fact is that on April 5, 2017 there are several holidays. In particular, we can talk about the following: International Soup Day. IN folk calendar the day is marked like this: Nikon's day.

Soup is the first course, an important part daily diet and one of the guarantees healthy body. Without it, the normal functionality of human life systems is at risk. To convey the importance this dish before mankind, a soup festival was even created.

International Soup Day is celebrated around the world on April 5 with a traditional feast. The main dish on the table this holiday is soup. Gourmets prefer not the usual recipe, but refined and unconventional. Popular on this day Eintopf ( German cuisine), Bouillabaisse, Vichyssoise (French), Gazpacho (Spanish), Dovga (Azerbaijani), Kalakeitto (Finnish), Minestrone (Italian), Tarator (Bulgarian), Kholodnik (Eastern European).

The word "soup" has Latin roots and means "broth with bread soaked in it." Broth in ancient times was called meat, fish and vegetable broths.

The annual consumption of soups in Russia is 30 billion servings. This number also includes borsch, cabbage soup, broth with chicken noodles. Russians are in second place in the world in eating soups. They are second only to the Chinese.

Soup belongs to a socially privileged type of food. To cook soup, you need at least such indispensable conditions as having your own home (hearth) and your own dishes. Both of these conditions in our market time, first of all, are far from economically achievable for everyone. Crockery is fabulously expensive, and the most primitive - pots, plates, cutlery. Hundreds of thousands of homeless people, vagrants, refugees, immigrants, displaced persons, orphans, victims of fire or people left homeless as a result of hostilities and natural disasters have not known what soup is for years, they are accustomed to dry, cold food and cold drinks, even in winter and autumn, when hot soft drinks(tea, coffee, sbiten) are simply necessary.

Previously, if soup was not prepared in the house, it was believed that this was a very poor family, and doctors often prescribed broth or light soup to a patient from such a family along with medicines. By the way, at the height of the Great Patriotic War, pilot Alexei Maresyev, the peasants who found him, who hid the wounded hero-pilot in the forest, treated chicken soup.

Many rightly consider soup to be the elixir of life, as it has many healing properties. Meat broths perfectly cope with colds and strengthen the body, warm vegetable broths have a calming effect, and cold ones are perfectly refreshing.

Which folk holiday today, 04/05/2017: Nikon day

The patron saint of this April day is Nikon Pechersky. Living in the 11th century, he gained fame as a scholar-chronicler. In 1078-1088, Nikon was hegumen of the Kiev Caves Monastery, he also became the founder of the monastery and the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos.

On this day, they started a big cleaning not only in the hut, but also outside its walls. They said about Nikon's Day: "," The house is not large, but it does not order to sit down", "The house is great by the owner", "You can't redo the household chores.

It was considered obligatory in every household to take out the garbage, shake out the bed linen, fill the mattresses with new straw, whitewash the stoves, and also wash the tables, benches, and floors, and often not just with water, but with an infusion of dried mats.

Our ancestors also hung bunches of mint in the upper rooms to sleep well, and they also treated it with pleasure - in tea, kvass, gingerbread ... Even in the famous Russian bath, there was a place for mint - and not only on this day - for its aroma and healing power. Shelves were strewn with mint in the bathhouse, a decoction of it gave steam.

And in the gardens during the day, they not only cleaned everything, but also planted currants, mountain ash, apple trees.

It was time to call the birds to please them with songs and protect them from all kinds of pests, and for this the birds were treated to flax seed, grains and crumbs.

It was also customary to go around all the available springs and keys with the verdict: "Underground water, we unlock the spring paths for you."

It turns out that April 5 is celebrated in the world as Soup Day! In connection with this important event, the Aquaphor company, which produces high-quality films for water, decided to congratulate me with a whole package fresh vegetables complete with its own water filter, because the soup should have clean water.

Tomorrow is soup day! Aquaphor sent congratulations with a package of vegetables and spices for soup. And they added a filter! pic.twitter.com/oSmjL7GBXD

The first dish is an indispensable and important part of the human diet, it is necessary for normal life and guarantees excellent health to anyone who doesn't care. Historians claim that soup recipes were already known in the 1st century BC, and it was first cooked in ancient Asia. In China, there is a mention of a culinary book, which is about 4700 years old, and a significant part of the pages in it is devoted to the "Soups" section. Previously, if soup was not prepared in the house, it was believed that this was a very poor family, and doctors often prescribed broth or light soup to the patient along with medicines.

This dish came to us from ancient times. By the way, in those distant times, a family in which soup could not be served on the table was considered not very prosperous, because it did not have enough money to buy all the necessary ingredients.

AS IT IS.

The name itself comes from the word suppa - this is how bread soaked in broth was called in Latin. The benefits of soup are obvious - it helps the body produce gastric juice and necessary enzymes, thereby favorably affecting work. gastrointestinal tract. If you have diseases of the digestive system, you can not do without such a dish. In addition, in ancient times, doctors prescribed soup to patients who had a cold.

FROM THE HISTORY.

Reliable evidence has been found that back in the 1st century BC. e. Soups were made in Asia. What is there: in an ancient Chinese cookbook, which is about 4700 years old, recipes for this dish were already offered! In the city of Sparta, known for its harsh rules and customs, they also prepared a specific taste of “Black Broth” - from the meat and blood of a pig, as well as vinegar. And the warriors of the Middle Ages, being on campaigns, ate wine soup - more precisely, they were pieces of bread soaked in wine.

The biggest lovers of the first course are the inhabitants of France. In the Middle Ages, French peasants ate soup twice a day (although they may not have had any other options).

PACKAGED.

Already closer to our time, at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, soup concentrates were invented. Their homeland is the USA, and the first dry soup was created by the Joseph Campbell Canning Company. The reason for their creation was the war: women could not devote as much time to household chores as before, and they had to save on food.

P.S. By the way, the soup of all these vegetables turned out to be very tasty.

This day in history:

Soup is the first course and an important part of the daily diet. To once again emphasize the importance of this dish for human health, a holiday was created - International Soup Day, which is celebrated on April 5th.

But we are talking about soup, and not about boiling, as a method of cooking for the purpose of thermal processing of products. After all, soup is a “set” of ingredients that create a general taste and composition. And although the methods of cooking, traditions and recipes of soups developed earlier, soups became widespread in Europe and Russia by the 18th century. Later, this dish spread throughout the world. By the way, in Rus', liquid dishes were first called stews. The word "soup" appeared only during the time of Peter I. In ancient times, meat, fish and vegetable broths were called decoctions.

In the national cuisine of any country there are recipes for this dish. Soup is prepared both in summer and in winter. Soups help to get enough and restore strength, increase tone. And doctors are confident in the usefulness of soups even during illness, prescribing light broths and vegetable soups to the patient to restore strength. According to doctors, soups have a beneficial effect on the digestive system of the body, stimulating the production of enzymes and gastric juice, are the prevention of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and even cancer. But it is important to remember that meat, fish and mushroom soups should not be abused by those who have increased acidity of gastric juice and people who are prone to the formation of kidney stones and gout.

There are approximately 150 types of soups in the world, which are divided into more than a thousand types, with each type having variants. Thus, the culinary arts researcher V. Pokhlebkin points to 24 varieties of cabbage soup and 18 varieties of fish soup.

The main types of soups are classified into the following categories:

1. By serving temperature - cold and hot soups;

2. By calorie content - light and satisfying (rich);

3. According to the ingredients used - vegetarian (lean) and soups, which include components of animal origin;

4. According to the cooking technology - boiled soups and raw; puree soups; dressing or thickened soups;

5. To taste - salty, neutral, sweet.

Which soup recipe is the most correct and popular is difficult to answer. It all depends on the country and personal taste. Soups contain a wide variety of components: poultry or animal meat, vegetables, mushrooms, fish, cereals, beans, dairy products, flour products, herbs, fruits, berries, spices. Depending on the ingredients of the dish and personal preferences, soups are served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. For example, milk soup is also suitable for a morning meal, while vegetable and meat soup is more often served in the afternoon or in the evening.

As for the “nationalities” of soups, among the brightest representatives of Russian cuisine are borscht and cabbage soup, hodgepodge and ear, okroshka and pickle ... Also known are Georgian kharcho soup and Spanish gazpacho, French onion soup and Danish pea soup with smoked meats. Oriental cuisine lovers know Japanese miso soup, Chinese hogo and Vietnamese pho. And this list can be continued for a long time, there are thousands of soup recipes in the world. And among the unusual ones there are Japanese noodle soup and chocolate, Caribbean - from iguana, Polish beer soup and African - from coffee, bananas and dirt from the foot of Kilimanjaro.

Therefore, when celebrating International Soup Day, of course, with a traditional feast, give preference not to the usual soup recipe, but to an exquisite and unconventional one. Bon appetit!

Rice and potatoes danced

And suddenly they got into the pan.

Butter, carrot, onion -

It made a delicious soup!

We'll pour it into a bowl

Soup spoon like a squirrel

Jumps into the mouth soon

Soup tastes better with every spoonful!