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Article: Chicken or beef broth
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- March 19, 2000
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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 ...