Black soup
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Black soup or black broth was a dish in the cuisine of ancient Sparta, made with boiled pork meat and blood, using only salt and vinegar to flavour. The soup was well known during antiquity in the Gre
A photograph of the remains of ancient Sparta's agora. Xenophon has described this location as a bustling market during the Classical period, which is where the Spartans would also purchase the pigs for cooking black soup.
Near the end of his life, Adolf Hitler followed a vegetarian diet. It is not clear when or why he adopted it, since some accounts of his dietary habits prior to the Second World War indicate that he a
Black soup
…Spartiates. Throughout history, black soup has been praised by and associated with figures such as Benjamin Rush and Adolf Hitler, although Hitler was (debatably) vegetarian. The ancient Greek author, Plutarch, who wrote in the first and second century AD, mentioned a Spartan dish in his Life of Lycurgus named…
Adolf Hitler at a dinner table
Hitler with his German Shepherd, Blondi