Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A thick creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions, usually served cold.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
- French, from feminine of vichyssois, of Vichy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A minor gripe, admittedly, but I've noticed, too, that the menu in any Italian full-service restaurant always spells the word 'vichyssoise' correctly.”
“Choose bistro staples such as vichyssoise, steak frites and croque-monsieur; Blue Door greatest hits including taro root mousse ravioli and '' crabavocat '' salad (blue crab and guacamole) plus gussied-up munchies such as Kobe beef sliders with crispy pancetta and a hot-pressed duck confit medianoche.”
“Start with vichyssoise, quiche lorraine or corn salad with palm heart, pineapple and black olives all $9 before moving on to dessert of éclairs or tarts.”
“A chilled vichyssoise is always a potential triumph under virtually any conditions.”
“Asparagus Vichyssoise Asparagus gives this vichyssoise a bright green color.”
“Asparagus gives this vichyssoise a bright green color—but if you can't find good asparagus, watercress proves a peppery substitution, carrots a sweeter one.”
“Options change daily but can include the creamy cold vichyssoise for a first course, seafood linguini for a main and crème caramel for dessert.”
“My tomato soup was not supposed to be vichyssoise but the altitude and the minus 18 degree temperature made it seem as if I'd ask for it on the rocks.”
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“The Modern offers two very different experiences: the hopping, hangar-size Bar Room and the far more intimate, fine-cuisine Dining Room, where surprises are in store both high (a spoon-size sphere of vichyssoise) and low (porcini-and-rosemary-enhanced popcorn).”
“At this point you may be wondering why a school system would hire a speech therapist with an accent thick as vichyssoise.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vichyssoise’.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for vichyssoise.
reesetee I don't want you to cite it either, bilby. Dec 17, 2007
sionnach At least he didn't specify minestrone or wonton soup. Dec 16, 2007
bilby Used as a euphemism for ejaculate in a snigger-snigger passage from one of Clive James' books. I really don't want to cite it :-/ Dec 16, 2007
evin290 mmm... :) Aug 30, 2007
uselessness Guybrush Threepwood
Hey... Ah... How's the stew tonight?
Bartender
Stew?
How gauche!
We only serve gourmet chilled soups here.
In fact, our new cook has been working all day on a very special vichyssoise.
Let me go see how he's doing.
(Bartender EXITS into the kitchen, but can be heard through the door.)
How's the vichyssoise, Bernard?
Cook
Excellent, sir. Won't you have a taste?
Bartender
I think I will...
OH MY GOD!!!
What kind of demented recipe book are you using?!?
Guybrush Threepwood
Hee, hee hee!
Bartender
You're fired!
Cook
But sir!
Bartender
Out!
Get out of my sight!
(Cook ENTERS from the kitchen with dripping hands, runs through the dining room, and EXITS)
This is the most disgusting, filthy mess I've ever seen in my life!
Look at all the hair!
And what's this stuff!
How am I ever going to get rid of this junk?
(Bartender ENTERS carrying a bowl and sets it before Guybrush.)
Well, here's your soup.
Guybrush Threepwood
Uh...
...I'm really not that hungry anymore. Feb 18, 2007
sionnach In the 2000 book "Kitchen Confidential" by chef Anthony Bourdain, he tells a tale of his first transatlantic voyage on the Queen Mary at the age of 9, when he first discovered this "delightfully cool, tasty liquid". And from there on, vichyssoise is referred to as the catalyst of his lifelong passion for food. Feb 18, 2007