Thursday, July 18, 2019

NPR News: Our Taste For Turtle Soup Nearly Wiped Out Terrapins. Then Prohibition Saved Them

Our Taste For Turtle Soup Nearly Wiped Out Terrapins. Then Prohibition Saved Them
By the turn of the 20th century, America's love affair with Diamondback Terrapin soup — a subsistence food turned gourmet fare — had left the turtle's population teetering. Booze ban to the rescue.

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