Quiche
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- For other uses, see Quiche (disambiguation).
In cooking, a quiche (pronounced "keesh") is a pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat, vegetables and cheese are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked.
Quiche Lorraine is perhaps the most common variety. In addition to the egg and cream, it includes bacon and cheese (usually Swiss). The addition of onion to Quiche Lorraine makes Quiche Alsacienne.
The word quiche is derived from the Lorrain dialect of the French language, and entered English in 1941.
In 1982 Bruce Feirstein's Real Men Don't Eat Quiche: A Guidebook to All That Is Truly Masculine was published. In 2005, the American-based Food Network listed quiche as the number one fad food of the American 1970s.
See also
- List of egg dishes
- Pie
- Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, a 1980's satire book
Categories: French cuisine | Egg | Pies
