Popular soup : A Soupe popular is a place where Soupe, or more generally a meal, is served free of charge to poor people.
History: The firsts soupes free are distributed at the end of the XNUMXth century in industrialized countries. The expression “economic stove” is sometimes used.
Benjamin Thompson (Lord Rumford) is an English officer hired by Prince Elector of Bavaria as aide-de-camp to carry out reforms on the social system in this state of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 1790s, he set up soupes Popular after realizing that we could prepare a meal for all workers that would cost less per person than what each individual would have spent on food. He develops and publishes various recipes. to prepare thousands of rations of free soup distributed to each meal to the poor, to workers in industries and military workshops, and to prisoners. This Rumford soup represents a first draft of the application of emerging nutritional science but turns out to provide only a third of the contributions caloric daily necessities. Prepared with restes de pain, vegetables and os, it was successful in the Holy Roman Empire, but received in England the derogatory nickname of Dirt and bones soup, literally " Soupe de dirt andos ».
The oldest soup kitchen in Paris, initiated by traders, dates from 1894.
The term " Soupe popular ”Appears after the crash of 1929. Millions of unemployed in Europe and United States of America were thus fed so as not to die of hunger as well as cold.
Today, many associations serve soupes Popular across the world, for example at Lausanne (Switzerland) or a meal free is served every evening 365 days a year through the MotherSofia Foundation.
The soup kitchen is considered to have an important social function, and also meets the needs of human contact.