How to Use vichyssoise in a Sentence

vichyssoise

noun
  • The lamb leg is funky and herbaceous, and the spring leek in vichyssoise is charred and delicate.
    — Jessica Henderson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • The most luxurious soup in town might be Joy’s warm vichyssoise.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The New Yorker notes that vichyssoise, in its heyday, was a soup for the stars.
    — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2018
  • And of course, vichyssoise, created by the French, is a cold potato and leek soup.
    — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2020
  • Stars who lingered for photographers on the red carpet missed out on sweet potato vichyssoise.
    — Beth Harris and Lynn Elber, The Seattle Times, 7 Jan. 2019
  • As if Meghan and Harry were coming over for vichyssoise and tomato aspic.
    — Ali Wentworth, Town & Country, 8 May 2022
  • Try making vichyssoise, a simple, smooth soup combining leeks and potatoes.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Make your vichyssoise when the kitchen’s relatively cool, after sundown or in the morning.
    — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2018
  • The starchy potatoes melt down into something almost cream-like, making the dish taste like a more exciting take on vichyssoise.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
  • There’s no point in hating on vichyssoise, that perfectly delicious cold summer puree of potatoes and leeks.
    — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Behold the most luxurious soup in town, a warm vichyssoise buoyed with pureed cauliflower and a hint of truffle oil.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Choices include quenelles of pike with lobster sauce, vichyssoise, gnocchi parisienne, rabbit ragout and skate amandine.
    — Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
  • Cannon would prepare vichyssoise, a French soup, with frozen mashed potatoes, a leek, and Campbell’s cream-of-chicken soup.
    — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Fifty-two of the nuns’ fellow sisters succumbed to food poisoning from a tainted batch of vichyssoise, so the few left standing are holding a variety show to raise enough money to pull the dead nuns out of cold storage and bury them.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Sample appetizers include crab avocado mousse and butternut squash vichyssoise.
    — Leeanne Griffin, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019

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