Chicken Soup in History and Media
- When Manilal Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi, contracted typhoid and pneumonia, a doctor recommended chicken soup and eggs. As strict vegetarian Hindus, his parents would not agree to this, but Manilal received treatment and recovered.
- Chicken soup is mentioned in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden: "And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either."
- Both Maurice Sendak’s Chicken Soup with Rice and his animated film and stage production Really Rosie (with music by Carole King) make multiple references to the dish.
- There is a series of books entitled Chicken Soup for the Soul.
- Chicken Soup was the title of a short-lived 1989 ABC sitcom starring Jackie Mason.
- "Chicken Noodle Soup" is a popular children’s song by Gibbs promoting Campbell’s chicken noodle soup.
- “Chicken Noodle Soup” featuring Young B. was made into a popular hip-hop song by DJ Webstar.
- "Chicken Soup with Barley" is a 1956 play by British playwright Arnold Wesker. It is the first in a trilogy of plays and explores the challenges facing a family of Communist, Jewish immigrants to the UK in the 1930s.
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Famous quotes containing the words chicken, soup, history and/or media:
“Unhappy, eagle wings and bleak, chicken brain.”
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—Orson Welles (1915–1984)
“A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.”
—Aristide Briand (1862–1932)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)