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Vichyssoise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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My first taste of Vichyssoise - excellent! Easy, straightforward recipe. Enjoyed it this warm summer afternoon with a fruit compote, fried bread fingers, and chilled Pinot Blanc, in the cool shade in my garden. Even my gourmet Belgian Shepherd loved it!
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Few people realize that Vichyssoise, the cold potato leek soup with the French name, was invented, not in Paris or Lyons or even in Vichy, France, but in New York City at the beginning of the 20th Century. ... The original Ritz-Carlton has long since been demolished but Vichyssoise lives on. During World War II some...
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; Yield: 6-8 servings, about 2 1/2 quarts; "Here is the mother of the family in all her simplicity. You'll note there's no chicken stock here, just water, leeks, potatoes, and salt in the soup base. However, ... CHILLED LEEK AND POTATO SOUP: VICHYSSOISE ; (Recipe from The Way to Cook, Julia Child, Alfred A. Knopf)
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vichyssoise, potato leek soup recipe (photograph), a thick creamy potato soup with leeks and onions, serve hot or cold ... What is Vichyssoise? It is a French term for a thick creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions, usually served cold, though I prefer to serve mine heated. Leeks should be cleaned well since...
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Fred Griffith of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, notes that U.S. chef-writer Anthony Bourdain, in Kitchen Confidential confesses that it was a bowl of Vichyssoise that determined his future: he had the nerve, as a child, to order it in a Normandy restaurant (his brother held out for Campbell's Chicken-Noodle or nothing)
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