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R came over tonight. It was a very literary night!

R: So, I'm doing gigs with [That girl who once bought us hamburgers] in Boys Town like, last week and two weeks in December.
Sam: Are you becoming a star?
R: Yesterday I was walking down Belmont and two guys stopped me and said they loved seeing me play.
Sam: You're the toast of the gayborhood.
R: You know who loves me? Gay guys and bluesmen.
Sam: Catchy title for a book.

[one pizza later]

R: If I had five hundred dollars I would throw a HUGE party. We'd have a DJ. And gumbo. I'd get a soupiere to come in.
Sam: A soupiere?
R: Like a soup chef.
Sam: Seriously?
R: It's gumbo, man. I have to take it seriously.
Sam: With soupieres.
R: Yeah. For bisques and such. Hey, that's a catchy title. You gotta write a book called Bisques And Such.

So apparently I'm writing a book called Bisques And Such.

I suspect lobstermen will be involved.

I'm pretty sure soupiere is not a word for a soup chef. But only pretty sure.

Comments

[love-1776.livejournal.com]

If you feature the word soupiere heavily in "Bisques And Such" I'm sure it will soon be a word.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I know lexicographers. I could make this happen.

[love-1776.livejournal.com]

I imagine this is how many revolutions have started. Or maybe none at all.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

It would be a GREAT revolution, wouldn't it?!

The Great Lexicographer Uprising of Aught-Nine....

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I think I'll just try to work it into every conversation I have :D

[accioayla.livejournal.com]

Frindle! :D

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I want there to be a store called Bisques and Such. I suspect it would sell many varieties of tureen.

[insixeighttime.livejournal.com]

Might get sued by Sticks and Stuff, the furniture store. Sadly.

[wellowned.livejournal.com]

soupiere is the french word for soup tureen, if that's any help at all.

[steeldreams.livejournal.com]

They were saying SOUS chef, R, not soup chef. ;-)

[kurai-mori.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef#Chef_de_partie

Under "Vegetable chef," "In a full brigade system a potager would prepare soups and a legumier would prepare vegetables."

[gaaak.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't a potager prepare potatoes?

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

Because one of the French words for soup (besides soupe) is potage. Usually those are vegetable soups. So there is probably often some potato preparation involved, at least.

With pommes de terre being the word for potatoes, I'm not sure what you'd call a potato preparer. Wouldn't be a pommier, because that's the word for apple tree...

[gaaak.livejournal.com]

Wow. I knew 'potage'; how did I not see the link? D'oh.

"pommes de terre" sounds like a breed of dog. There HAS to be a word for potato preparer!

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

A "pomme de terrier", perhaps? Heehee.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

If you had a mutt it could be a Pomeranian de Terrier.

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

LOL! You win, sir! *hands you a shiny Internet*

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I looked that up, but if you google potager, it keeps giving back results for kitchen gardens :D

[ak-alterego.livejournal.com]

Give him http://lmgtfy.com/?q=soupiere

[gaaak.livejournal.com]

OMG, what a great link! People ask me things all the time, to which I Google, then give them the answer. This is even better!

[ak-alterego.livejournal.com]

lmao, NGL i got it from ONTD. But if you go there (lmgtfy.com) and type in what you want and click the I'm Feeling Lucky it'll take you straight to the first webpage too.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Would the Soup Chef's assistant be the Soup Sous Chef? Sous Soup Chef? Soused Soup Chef??? :)

[doolabug.livejournal.com]

Isn't that a Sous-p Chef?

Sorry, sorry - Dove will be over to kill me shortly.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Dude, have you met me? I'm all about the puns.

Get into the word fort, we'll defend our position against all pun-ishment.

[doolabug.livejournal.com]

*climbs into fort*
Although really, it's the pun-itive damages we have to worry about.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I have no compunctions.

[doolabug.livejournal.com]

As long as we're punctilious, I think we'll be ok.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well.

And punctual. Unless we encounter some punks.

[doolabug.livejournal.com]

We'll just punch them out!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Spoken like a true pundit. You're puntagious!

[deborahsama.livejournal.com]

Who needs a soupiere when you could just use Alton's roux recipe ( http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/shrimp-gumbo-recipe/index.html )? I'm from Louisiana, and Granny can knock his method all they want, but it is *foolproof*. I like to use it as a base for beef stew, too.

[deborahsama.livejournal.com]

*all she wants, lol

[slice254.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try this. Unless I'm making a very light roux, I burn mine every time. That's why I haven't attempted gumbo since moving to Louisiana.

[deborahsama.livejournal.com]

OMG, it is amazing. I always had trouble with dark roux until Alton changed my life. I can now make amazing okra gumbo for my Yankee friends with pride~ Another plus is if you have a cast iron dutch oven, or just a thick walled pot with high sides, it turns gumbo into a one pot wonder. The sausage (if not sliced too thick) and seafood will cook in the hot roux almost instantly - after that, it's just a matter of adding trinity and stock and then you're done!

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

And if you write a sequel, it could be Son of a Bisque!

Sorry, I'm feeling punny tonight. Also, now I really want lobster bisque, but all I have is rum cake. And I can't even eat that, for it is baking in the oven. And has to be saved for tomorrow. Curses!

Then again, there is some leftover rum...

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Isn't a soupiere a tureen? I mean, presumably you'd need a tureen for all the awesome gumbo, but a tureen that produces gumbo?

Mythic.

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

I once worked at a soup place called Soup Pierre. Best damn soup in the city, so R may be on to something there. :D