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CULINARY CONTROVERSY OVER ORIGINS

There is a great deal of debate among culinary scholars regarding the history of vichyssoise. Some subscribe to the idea that it was created by Louis Diat , a chef at the Ritz-Carlton in New York City in 1917 . Others contend that French chef Jules Gouffe was first to create the recipe, publishing a version in his 1869 ''Royal Cookery Book''.


POP CULTURE

  • In the 1991 Adventure Game '' Monkey Island 2 '', the swanky chef at ''The Bloody Lip'', a local Dive Bar on Scab Island, is cooking vichyssoise. One of the puzzles in the game involves sabotaging it by putting a Rat inside. More vichyssoise references are made in the following game, '' The Curse Of Monkey Island '', where Guybrush owns a book called "Voulez-vous Vichyssoise" and Goodsoup is putting up an opera with the same name.

  • Vichyssoise is mentioned in the 1992 movie Batman Returns . In the film Alfred Pennyworth serves Bruce Wayne a bowl of vichyssoise. Bruce is surprised at its temperature, saying "It's cold!" to which Alfred responds that "It's supposed to be cold." In the Batman Returns script, Michael Keaton's character Bruce Wayne was supposed to deliver the line "Vichyssoise. Supposed to be cold, right?" It is believed by many that Michael Keaton forgot his line and Michael Gough (Alfred) improvised and delivered the line himself, thus saving the crew from having to film the scene again.


In the 2006 film V For Vendetta , it is one of the words used in the end of the extended alliteration that Hugo Weaving 's character V delivers at the beginning of the film:

"...Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."


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