Brown Windsor soup Brown Windsor soup Brown Windsor soup is a British meat soup that is said by conventional wisdom to have been popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, although well documented evidence for the soup does not exist until the 1920s and 30s. In any case, "Brown Windsor soup became shorthand for awful food," and was used as a prop by comics in the post war years. It is unclear whether this often-written-about soup is of Victorian origin. The food writer Alan Davidson in "The Oxford Companion to Food" (2006) refers to an elaborate late Victorian recipe in Garrett's "Encyclopedia of
Gim (food) Gim (food) Gim (), also romanized as kim, is the Korean name for edible seaweed species in the genera "Pyropia" and "Porphyra", including "P. tenera", "P. yezoensis", "P. suborbiculata", "P. pseudolinearis", "P. dentata", and "P. seriata". The red algae genera are also consumed in Japan, where it is known as "nori", and in Wales and Ireland, where it is known as laver. Along with "miyeok" (brown seaweed) and "dasima" (kelp), "gim" is one of the most widely cultivated and consumed types of seaweed in Korea. It is commonly eaten as a "banchan" (side dish) and used to make seaweed rice