The New Yorker, October 28, 1939 P. 38
REPORTER AT LARGE about the turtle & terrapin business. Visit to Will Barbee's diamond-back terrapin farm on the Isle of Hope. The terrapin market in N. Y. is located in three ancient buildings near the corner of Beekman and Front Streets, in Fulton Market. The largest of these is occupied by Moore & Co., an old black-bean, turtle-soup and terrapin-stew firm now owned by a gourmet named Francesco Castelli. Each winter he sells around 2000 quarts of diamondback stew. Mr. Castelli believes that turtle and terrapin meat is the most healthful in the world and likes to tell about a fox terrier which lives in his factory and ate nothing but turtle meat until he dies in 1921, aged twenty-five.
