"Christine Dabney" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:05:40 +0200, "Pandora" >
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>>> There is this one chef I work with who swears up and down that
>>> vichyssoise is a fish stew. Everyone else, including myself, says
>>> it's a potato and leek soup served cold. I suggested he might be
>>> thinking of bouillbaisse but he swears that vichyssoise is a fish
>>> stew, at least to a French person it is.
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>>You are right. Vichissoise it's a soup with potatoes and leeks.
>>Bouillabaisse it's a marsigliese fish soup.
>>I have never heard of a vichissoise with fish.
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> Not only that, it is American, invented by a Louis Diat back in 1917.
> He was a chef at the Ritz Carlton in NYC, and based it on his memories
> of potato and leek soup.
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> Christine

Ohh! Very interesting! Was this Louis Diat american? Or was he a french who
worked in NYC?
thank you

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