Soups are the most common first dish in many countries of the world. If you imagine life on Earth without this dish, then we can conclude that human life would end very quickly. Liquid and hot foods are very important for the body, it warms up the body from the inside, gives a charge of vigor for the whole day and allows you to maintain all the vital systems of the body normally. The very first soups did not constitute something very tasty, it was ordinary liquid stew. Most often, soups are cooked on water, as well as meat broths. To prepare ordinary soup, it is enough to use improvised ingredients. Do not rack your head, just look at what products you have. Most often, the soup consists of water, potatoes or cereals, a piece of meat, vegetable roasts and spices. Group can be used different, both buckwheat and rice. Varieties of soups have a huge number. Some of them were known as noble, while others were invented in strange conditions, maybe even by chance. One of these famous soups is onion. The legend says that once, the French king wished to taste the soup, but in the hunting guard, where he was visiting this time, there was nothing but onions and oil. It was these products that became the main for the preparation of a new masterpiece of cooking. The world -famous Ukrainian borsch is a very colorful representative of the first dishes. There are endlessly the number of recipes for its preparation. Probably every self -respecting mistress has her own secret of borscht. Soups have long been developing before our eyes, preparation techniques, methods of combining products and much more are changing.