24 November: Darwin's Origin is published, and a bowl of Oxtail Soup
On 24 November 1859 John Murray published Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in London. A book about how creatures change over time gets a British bowl with a tail of its own: rich, slow-simmered oxtail soup.
Soup of the day
Oxtail Soup
United Kingdom6.3
Oxtail soup is a rich, brown British soup made from beef tails. The oxtail pieces are browned and simmered for hours with onion, carrot, celery, herbs and tomato purée, until the meat falls from the bones and the broth becomes thick and gelatinous.
Read about Oxtail Soup and get the recipe →What happened
John Murray publishes Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in London.
Sources
- Darwin Online: On the Origin of Species, 1st edition
- NLM Circulating Now: First editions of Darwin's Origin
- University of Reading Special Collections: On the Origin of Species
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