47. WEIRD FOOD: Cuffy Cockroach’s Sea Turtle Soup

<p>People began eating turtle soup in the 1700s, and they kept eating it through the early 1900s. Companies like Campbell’s and Heinz made canned turtle soup (and something called mock turtle soup). And it wasn’t just available. It was a real culinary obsession. In the early days, there would be these big, elaborate parties, called Turtle Frolics, where people would get together to enjoy it. Including a notable Turtle Frolic in Newport, prepared and served by a talented chef named Cuffy Cockroach. </p><p><i>Episode Source Material: </i></p><ul><li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IPpFlX9X4ZEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=cuffy%20cockroach&f=false">Reminiscences of Newport - George Champlin Mason - Google Books</a> 1884 </li><li><a href="https://afroculinaria.com/2011/11/10/a-newport-rhode-island-turtle-feast-1767/">A Newport Rhode Island Turtle Feast, 1767 – Afroculinaria</a></li><li><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/turtle-soup-from-class-to-mass-to-aghast/">Turtle Soup: From Class to Mass to Aghast - JSTOR Daily</a></li><li><a href="https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-turtles-of-philadelphias-culinary-past/">The Turtles of Philadelphia's Culinary Past</a></li><li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xrWRrd-GCLgC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=newport+rhode+island+turtle+stew&source=bl&ots=e-OfnkseJv&sig=ACfU3U0lD9_2uTSh2DdD-vceiAjzHO8J4w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWiYeGwPv1AhWLlYkEHSbnCKQQ6AF6BAgfEAM#v=onepage&q=newport%20rhode%20island%20turtle%20stew&f=false">Early Recollections of Newport, R.I. From the Year 1793 to 1811 | George Gibbs Channing</a></li><li><a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/08/28/102230639.html?pageNumber=33">One of New York's Queer Institutions | New York Times</a></li><li><a href="https://www.rihs.org/foodways-freedom-african-heritage-entrepreneurs-18th-19th-century-rhode-island/">Foodways to Freedom: African Heritage Entrepreneurs in 18th- and 19th-Century Rhode Island – The Rhode Island Historical Society</a></li><li><a