Take a journey around the world in chicken soup. There can’t be many nicer ways to travel...
When you’re nursing a cold, or just feeling in need of some succour and comfort, a bowl of chicken soup is the answer. We’re not sure there’s much it can’t solve, to be honest.
Chicken soup has been soothing humans since the times of the ancient Greeks and Chinese, but it’s as a Jewish dish that it’s most well known, earning it the title ‘Jewish Penicillin’ . A 12th century Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, even claimed it could cure not only the common cold but also leprosy and asthma.
Wherever you go in the world there’s a version of chicken soup to sustain you. Here are a few you might be less familiar with for some inspiration next time you’re wielding a ladle in the face of a cold.
In France, try a Chicken Pot Au Feu.
Head to Vietnam for Pho Ga.
You can sample Bahian Chicken and Shrimp Stew in Brazil.
Warm your very bones with Ajiaco in Columbia.
In Greece, order a bowl of Chicken Orzo Soup.
Go Italian with this Chicken and Escarole Soup with Fennel.
Try a Japanese take on chicken noodle soup with this Chicken Udon.
And finally, fight off cold with some spice with a hearty Mulligatawny from India
We were inspired to go on our Chicken Soup Tour by the recipe in our January issue for Chorba Bayda taken from The Chicken Soup Manifesto by Jenn Louis (Hardie Grant) Photography: Ed Anderson. The January issue is on sale now, in shops or you can buy it in our online shop and have it delivered straight to your doormat.
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