> North American chefs will generally call the base a mirepoix, but it’s got different names in different languages Mirepoix is a French-origin fragrant soup b

> North American chefs will generally call the base a mirepoix, but it’s got different names in different languages Mirepoix is a French-origin fragrant soup base. It’s more correct to say that most cultures have a default fragrant base (holy trinity, sofrito, soffrito, zazharka, Cantonese base, South Asian base, et cetera).