Question

“Pepper pot women” served as early street vendors in this city by selling a soup with Caribbean influences throughout the 19th century. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city where American cuisine’s earliest cookbook, The New Art of Cookery, was published in 1792. Campbell Soup Company sold pepper pot soup from its headquarters in Camden across the river from this city.
ANSWER: Philadelphia [or Philly; accept Philadelphia pepper pot]
[10h] Philadelphia’s New Art of Cookery preceded the Hartford publication of the American Cookery, a foundational cookbook by this self-proclaimed “American orphan.”
ANSWER: Amelia Simmons
[10e] Both cookbooks contained recipes for an upscale soup made from this animal’s meat. A “mock” version of that soup made from this animal’s meat was offered to mass society.
ANSWER: turtle [accept terrapin, tortoise, chelonians, Testudines, snapping turtle, sea turtles, or other specific turtles; accept turtle soup or snapper soup; accept mock turtle soup; prompt on reptiles] (Mock turtle was veal.)
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