Why You Should Make This Version of French Onion Soup

It’s not all about the cheese

Mark Bittman
Heated
Published in
3 min readDec 21, 2020

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Onions in a pan.
Photo: Romulo Yanes

A few things: 1) It’s officially wintry enough in my world that I want to start talking about hot soup. Sorry, Phoenix. 2) Despite the headline, I have nothing against French onion soup, at least in theory.

What I am against is that the majority of restaurants that serve this dish, or used to, when…

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Mark Bittman
Heated

Has published 30 books, including How to Cook Everything and VB6: The Case for Part-Time Veganism. Newsletter at markbittman.com.