[Sca-cooks] OOP - Foods with Place Names

[Alex Clark]

"Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
>As I understand it, according to me recent duck research, the name
>"Peking Duck" comes not from the city of Peking/?Beijing, but rather
>because the breed of duck to make the dish in the Pekin duck. Anybody
>else got some information on that topic?

I'm fairly certain that the name is a literal translation of the Chinese 
"Beijing ya". The Wikipedia says that a special breed is used exclusively 
for this dish, which seems to suggest that this is a different breed from 
the Pekin duck

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Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon