I just finished making Vichyssoise for dinner tonight. As I was making it I couldn’t help but think that I was, at that moment, a poster-child for the raving Neo-Cons’ image of the Left–a “radical” Liberal making Vichyssoise–a French (gasp!) soup preferred by them-thar intellectual elitists…and using a Cuisinart stick blender to boot! How anti-American!

I was also struck by how ironic it is that that soup should be an icon for leftist elites (according to the Right)–after all, it is named for a city best known for what? Anybody? Bueller?

Fascism. Yes, good ol’ Vichy, the center of Nazi-loving (the gov’t, that is) unoccupied France during WWII.