How do you spell "Vishi Swa", the food dish? (Pronounced that way)?

Question

I have no I dea how to spell it, but it is a cold potato soup.

Answer 1

Vichyssoise is a French-style soup made of pureed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream, and chicken stock. It is usually served cold.

The culinary provenance of vichyssoise—namely whether it is a genuinely French dish or an American innovation—is a subject of debate among culinary historians. Credit for the dish usually goes to Louis Diat, the chef at the Ritz-Carlton in New York City for most of the first half of the 20th century. Diat related his recollection of the invention in the New Yorker magazine in 1950:

"In the summer of 1917, when I had been at the Ritz seven years, I reflected upon the potato-and-leek soup of my childhood, which my mother and grandmother used to make. I recalled how, during the summer, my older brother and I used to cool it off by pouring in cold milk, and how delicious it was. I resolved to make something of the sort for the patrons of the Ritz."

The same article explains that the soup was first titled crème vichyssoise glacée, then, after the restaurant's menu changed from French to English in 1930, cream vichyssoise glacée. Vichy is a town not far from Diat's home town of Montmarault, which was not yet tainted by ignominy.

Others contend that French chef Jules Gouffé was first to create the recipe, publishing a version in Royal Cookery (1869). Diat may have borrowed the concept from an older generation of French chefs and added the innovation of serving it cold.

Answer 2

vichyssoise

1939, from Fr., in full crÍme vichyssoise glacÈe, lit. "iced cream (soup) of Vichy (see Vichy).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

Answer 3

Vichysoisse - from the French town of Vichy.

Answer 4

vichyssoise

It's a French yummy soup!

Answer 5

You might try a French dictionary.
Or how about a cookbook. :)

Answer 6

It comes from the french words for vomit.