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Bouillabaisse: A Fearless Approach to a Legendary Dish

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870805
Author:Gail Forman

This bouillabaisse a noble dish is-

A sort of soup or broth, or brew,

Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes,

That Greenwich never could outdo;

Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron,

Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace:

All these you eat at TERRE'S tavern,

In that one dish of Bouillabaisse. "The Ballad of Bouillabaisse" by William Makepeace Thackeray As we feasted on a generous bouillabaisse at La Brasserie, my friend Inge speculated about how hard it must be to prepare a dish like that for a group. "Anyone can do it," I maintained, and we argued back and forth. By ...

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