FOODIZEN: How To Make Pepper Pot Soup
We recently shared the fascinating story behind pepper pot soup on our Foodizen podcast.
The soup was consumed by millions of Americans throughout the 20th century, but its history doesn’t begin with Andy Warhol’s iconic canned-soup paintings; nor did it get its start from Campbell’s Soup, which mass-marketed it for ages before halting production of it in 2011.
A common story says that the soup was first created by a white soldier in George Washington’s Valley Forge army, but that’s not true, either.
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