Quiche

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For other uses, see Quiche (disambiguation).

Mediterranean quiche

In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) is a baked dish that is made primarily of eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat, vegetables, or cheese are often added to the egg mixture before the quiche is baked. Although it is an open-facted tart, most experts agree that a quiche is not a pastry.

Quiche Lorraine is perhaps the most common variety. In addition to the egg and cream, it includes bacon or lardons. Cheese is not an ingredient of the original Lorraine recipe, as Julia Child informed Americans: "The classic quiche Lorraine contains heavy cream, eggs and bacon, no cheese."^[1] though most contemporary quiche recipes include Gruyère cheese , making a quiche à la gruyère or a quiche vosgienne. The addition of onion to quiche Lorraine makes quiche alsacienne. Without eggs, an open-face onion tart with anchovies and black olives is a pissaladière niçoise, a relative of pizza.

The word quiche is derived from the Lorrain dialect of the French language.

Unsliced Quiche Lorraine

[edit] Trivia

The 1980 album Wild Planet by The B-52's contained a song called "Quiche Lorraine."
In 1982 Bruce Feirstein's satire Real Men Don't Eat Quiche: A Guidebook to All That Is Truly Masculine was published. This idea was capitalized upon in the series of television commercials for Hungry Man TV dinners.
In 2006, Burger King ran similarly-themed adverts, with a song featuring the lines "Yes, I'm a guy/I'll admit I've been fed Quiche/Wave 'chick food' bye-bye/Now it's for the purest beef I reach."[1](The lyrics varied slightly between the British and American broadcasts).
The comic strip Bloom County contained a female character named Quiche Lorraine.
In 2005, the American-based Food Network listed quiche as the number one fad food of the American 1970s.
In the comic book Bone by Jeff Smith, two rat creatures continually follow the Bone cousins around in an attempt to eat them. One of them is obsessed with baking them into a quiche, which is frowned upon by the other rat creature, insisting that monsters don't eat quiche.
In the the anime/manga Tokyo Mew Mew, there is an alien character named Kish, whose name is derived from the Japanese version of the word, Quiche.