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Wednesday, January 3, 2007

A quiche by any name

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Remember the days of quiche? When no brunch was complete without a mushroom or ham quiche, or for vegetarians, a broccoli version? When real men ate quiche? Well, actually, when everybody ate quiche.

Fondue made a comeback in the last couple of years, but quiche hasn't really roared back into popularity, left out of cookbooks and food magazines.

Unless you consider that the rise of the savory tart, such as the onion, bacon, and cheese version I made for New Year's Eve, is really just a case of semantics. What in the 70s and 80s was called quiche is now a tart. Like many other culinary issues, it's all in the name -- and the quiche, or, oops, tart, was divine.

Posted by Alison Arnett at 12:18 PM
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