Article: Chicken or beef broth

Chicken or beef broth, that is the question

By JANE SNOW

Knight Ridder Newspapers

Sunday, March 19, 2000

Beef broth or chicken broth? That is the question.

When it comes to French onion soup, most cooks would consider it heresy to use chicken broth.

What a surprise, then, to discover that the most renowned onion soup in Paris is made with chicken broth. The soup at Pied de Cochon, an all-night brasserie in the Les Halles food market area, is made with sliced onions slow-roasted in butter and white wine, ladled into crocks with steaming chicken broth.

In decades past, workers would repair to Pied de Cochon for bowls of onion soup for a pick-me-up.

The restaurant still exists, and Parisians ...

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