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
Dish (food) for particular places, sometimes because of a specific association with that place like Boston baked beans or "bistecca alla fiorentina". Sometimes not: "poached eggs Florentine" ends up meaning essentially "with spinach". Some are named for particular individuals, perhaps to honor them including Brillat-Savarin cheese named for the 18th-century French gourmet and political figure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, or perhaps because the dish was first prepared for them such as Chaliapin steak made by the order of the Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin in 1934 in Japan, or perhaps they named it for themselves because they invented the dish, or perhaps because