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July 22, 2015

When Did Jews Start Eating Chicken Soup?

Probably by 300 BCE.

While archaeologists can’t yet answer that question with certainty, they have discovered evidence of large-scale commercial chicken farming in ancient Judea during the 4th century BCE—some 200 years before the practice is thought to have reached Europe. Daniel Eisenbud writes:

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