Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Vichyssoise (/ ˌ v ɪ ʃ i ˈ s w ɑː z / VISH-ee-SWAHZ, French: ⓘ) is a soup made of cooked and puréed leeks, potatoes, onions and cream. It is served chilled and garnished with chopped chives. It was invented in the first quarter of the 20th century by Louis Diat, a French-born cook working as head chef of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York.
Diat named it "crème vichyssoise glacée" (chilled cream vichyssoise), [25] after Vichy, a spa town near his birthplace in France that is famous for both its exceptional food and its springs. [8] [26] The new item enjoyed "instant success". [13] [6] Charles M. Schwab was the first to sample vichyssoise [27] and requested another serving. [10]
The alternative story is that 19th-century French chef Joseph Voiron invented it and named it after one of his cooks, Mornay, his oldest son. Mozartkugel – Salzburg, the birthplace of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), is also the place where this marzipan/nougat-filled chocolate was created c. 1890. Also in the composer's honor ...
Lobster bisque French onion soup. Belle de Fontenay — potato named after the suburb of Fontenay-sous-Bois, Paris; Beurre d'Isigny — butter from the town of Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy; Bisque — soup named after the Bay of Biscay between Spain and France; Camargue red rice — the Camargue region, Bouches-du-Rhône
Thick soup made of clams, potatoes, salt pork and onions Cock-a-leekie: Scotland: Chunky Leek and potato soup made with chicken stock Cold borscht / Šaltibarščiai Lithuania: Cold (chilled) Beetroot (or sometimes tomato), popular in Eastern Europe. A Lithuanian specialty, usually made in summer time in one variety, almost always cold. Based ...
Jays Foods, Inc., is an American manufacturer of snack products including potato chips, popcorn and pretzels. Jays Foods was founded in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, and is currently a subsidiary of Snyder's of Hanover. [3] Operating in several Midwestern states, Jays Foods' potato chips and popcorn maintain significant shares of their respective ...
The Dove Bar was invented in Chicago. [7] Cracker Jack was founded by a German immigrant who in 1871 started selling molasses-coated, steam-popped corn out of a candy shop in Chicago's South Side. [16] Chicago meat packer Gustavus F. Swift is credited with commercializing
Heinz Field was named after the Heinz company in 2001. A majority of its ketchup was produced in Fremont, Ohio, and the rest made in Muscatine, Iowa. [49] Heinz opened a pickle factory in Holland, Michigan, in 1897, and it is the largest such facility in the world.