European sailors brought Caribbean sea turtles back home around the 15th–17th centuries, and the British experimented with ...

when sea turtles were included in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Mrs Casters also wrote down recipes for onion gravy, oysters, macaroni and 'omelette the French way'.

Even if American palates were still oriented towards the old school recipes for turtle soup, the green sea turtle has been designated as an endangered species since 1978, and terrapin populations ...