Onion Soup

When my daughter was a child, she loved a bubbling bowl of cheese-crusted onion soup better than almost anything. For her, I made it without wine. The idea of using Champagne comes from the legend that onion soup was invented by Henri IV one early evening after a hard day’s hunting. He was supposed to have stopped at a peasant hut and asked for something to eat. Embarrassed, the wife replied that she had nothing but onions, some stale bread, and a little fat in the house. T