Brown Windsor soup the soup being documented in restaurant menus during the interwar years, some more recent web sources incorrectly claim there are no references to "Brown Windsor soup" prior to a joke mention, or invention, in the 1953 Ealing Studios film comedy "The Captain's Paradise". Another associates it with "Calves' Feet Soup à la Windsor", created for the "post-natal Queen Victoria" by Charles Elmé Francatelli, her chef. Etymologist Michael Quinion incorrectly reports the earliest known reference is from 1943, in "The Fancy", by Monica Dickens. As to the name, a few early White Windsor soup recipes included the use of Windsor fava
Nyanya (dish) black porridge, brains, and other things. "What niania this is!" he added to Chichikov. "Never would you get such stuff in a town, where one is given the devil knows what." The dish is also mentioned in the Saltykov-Shchedrin's novel "Old Years in Poshekhonye". Nyanya (dish) Nyanya or niania () is an ancient Russian dish. It consists of a sheep’s abomasum stuffed with mutton brains, head meat, legs, onion and buckwheat porridge. The dish is known from the 9th century. Nyanya was forbidden by the Russian Orthodox Church because pagan Slavs used the dish in their rituals. The nyanya is