BALLAD OF SOUP DU JOUR

[Music] [Music] some of the sweetest songs in the world are the songs that people sing to the everyday things about them undoubtedly you've heard the one that goes can she make a cherry pie Billy Boy Billy Boy can she bake a cherry pie charming Billy and the one that goes alive alive alive alive a whole quraían cockles and mussels alive alive but have you ever heard the one that goes soo is the secret of gold living so is the secret of good livin from the wealth of the earth and the wealth of a sea with spice and herbs so savoury a favorite food down through his story DUSU is the secret of gold-laden so is the secret the secret of gold [Music] food songs are part of the folk heritage of All Nations and Universal in delight [Music] [Applause] everything goes into the kettle delicacies ancient and delicacies recent alike [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] if you've ever cooked a steak over an open fire ever watch the sizzle of the juices from the meat lost falling into the flames you've shared the feelings of the primitives who wanted to save those flavors what a pity to spend all those drippings on the brightness of blazing's and cracklings of the fire [Music] you can save some of the juices by roasting [Music] but you can capture more of them and really most of them by cooking the meat or fowl with some water in a kettle and that's how soup began soup was a discovery destined to interest people of all ages juice is good to the taste and good for the taster soup wholesome and helpful and enjoyed by all [Music] old songs old rhymes tell the theme of joyful soup sipping soup gave a wholesome feeling old Hippocrates the father of Medicine recommended it to patients old and young chefs old and modern have taken soup far beyond those early days the key to the kettle is flavor flavor to loosen the appetite to quicken the enjoyment of all food so seasonings were added herbs and spices and cereals then vegetables some recipes were secretly [Music] let the cattle smile says an old recipe of the Greeks meaning merely to simmer the soup to letter chuckle bean soup and peace two of our favorites today were also favourites of the Romans sometimes served thick enough to cut a woman who can't make soup should not be allowed to marry throughout history that thought has persisted in the Middle Ages the bride prepared a kettle of soup for the wedding feast but the groom wasn't allowed to taste it until after the vows were spoken and then it was too late to do anything about it the song of soup softly singing and simmering is a song of good living when was it served first as a separate course there's no telling in all its Elizabethan elegance England was limited to a spoon and a knife and usually sat down to a one-piece dinner cooked in one kettle served on one plate to be eaten at one time the broth was chopped up separately with slices of bread the bread so used was called chops some men of history tell us that is where the word soup came from a second course of slices of meat or the joints themselves was served in a bowl they called a trencher manners were different than wide travel broadens our horizons especially in points of etiquette and styles of food the Italians gave the English the form and the cooking Chinese gave Marcopolo the Italian man of travel the noodle back in Italy it became spaghetti macaroni and other pasta in Peru the Spanish conquistadors discovered the tomato without which there would be no self-respecting minestrone and no universally loved tomato soup the potato also came from Peru corn from Mexico some say Indian squaws first concocted the seafood chowder's famous in New England and gave the chowder recipes to our pilgrim mothers others say chowder comes from China the Chinese word for food which crept into our language when the Chinese seamen came aboard our Yankee merchant ships to cook still others point to the French word Sheol guerre meaning cauldron or kettle in many fishing villages the women folk prepared a community kettle to celebrate the safe return of the fleet into it went all manner of catch from the sea [Music] most agree that the most flavorful nourishing part of any fish is its bra the traditional seasonings of course and the common onion in the kettle were beautiful miracles pepper pot soup came from Philadelphia there is no doubt among food historians about that way down yonder in New Orleans the Blues came to birth and also the wonderful variety of gumbo [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] in all of us the colorful pageantry of food history tantalizes the gourmet [Music] the quickening tempo of living today permits all of us to indulge our creative fancies in the arts of cookery prepared and semi prepared the convenience foods of today can be used as the basis for new and imaginative dishes modern convenience foods save precious hours in preparation the busy homemaker of today is free before the imaginative touches and little luxuries to excite the appetite today she cooks creatively without having to start with raw ingredients without peeling picking plucking and scraping her way to the point where the arts come in she skips by the boredom and gets to the part of cooking that is fun to the part where she can create by using her individuality and her imagination today every meal can be something festive with modern convenience foods providing the base ingredients for dishes truly elegant even the snack can have keulen Airy impact and glamour too [Music] universally loved tomato soup vegetable soup chicken vegetable vegetable beef chicken noodle beef new chicken rice cream of chicken mushroom and on and on one of the greatest and most recent discoveries in the history of soup is of course condensed soup the makings of a meal are preserved in a small bright container ready for the kettle with only water or milk to be added our modern shelves of Plenty place a world of unusual blendings of flavors at our fingertips no people in history ever fared as well as we do no people on God's green earth ever enjoyed so much of the good things of life and in such enjoyable and nutritious variety our modern shopping baskets swelling with abundance topple the tall tales and all the romance of food lore from centuries past soup sets the appetite seen for indeed the wealth of the earth and the wealth of the sea make it the perfect companion for hungry humanity sue is the secret of good living so is the secret of good living from the wealth of the earth and the wealth of a sea with spice and herbs so savory a favour down through history de su is the secret of gold Leyland soap is the secret the secret of gold [Music]