It's funny how old relatively modern foods can be, and how new seemingly traditional dishes are.
Any European dish with tomatoes or potatoes in it is less than 500 years old. Meanwhile French Onion soup hasn't changed much since the Roman era. Kombucha may have been tranding recently, but it dates back thousands of years, meanwhile the relatively simple ciabatta roll was created in the 80's.
It makes you appreciate how good a new food has to be to break into the culinary ouvre. Think about how long croissants and doughnuts have been around (since at least the 13th and 15th centuries), and boom, cronuts pop up out of nowhere in 2013 and seem to have taken the pastry world by storm. 10 years later, doughnuts and croissants are still a staple at every bakery, from fancy shops to fast food places like dunkin' donuts, and while cronuts are still around, they are more of a niche thing, somewhat forgotten. It certainly did not have the staying power of, say, pizza margherita...
> Onion soups have been popular at least since Roman times.
without references, so the historical references are just 'trust me, bro'.
And it's also a confusing handwavy statement. What does it mean? Were the Gauls cooking onion soups or the Romans? Were they cooking it in the geographical region matching today's France? Or was it brought from Rome?
These types of statements are triggering my pseudohistorical nationalism bullshit detector.
Any European dish with tomatoes or potatoes in it is less than 500 years old. Meanwhile French Onion soup hasn't changed much since the Roman era. Kombucha may have been tranding recently, but it dates back thousands of years, meanwhile the relatively simple ciabatta roll was created in the 80's.