[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 56, Issue 8

[Patricia Dunham]

or possibly a unique abbreviation of "Plant(agen)et"???

chimene

On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Alexander Clark wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:43:48 -0800 (PST), Donna Green
> <donnaegreen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to come up with a list of dishes that are named for people ...
>> like Pavlova and Peche Melba. I'm not looking for dishes named for
>> occupations, like Chicken Caccatore (sp?), or named for the cook who
>> invented or popularized a dish. The idea is more of renown through the
>> culinary arts, i.e. a person is well know for some accomplishment and they
>> are honored by having a food named for them. I would appreciate any
>> suggestions (not necessarily period) for this listing.
>> 
>> The end point of this exercise is a party for cooks and costumers ... dress
>> up as the historical person and bring the dish. Feel free to play with this
>> thought if it amuses you.
> 
> There's Napoleon, Josephine, and some beefy bloke named Wellington.
> And some beefy Russian dude called Stroganoff.
> 
> At the coronation of Richard III there was a "Custard Edward planted".
> I don't know whether this was named for the King Edward who had just
> been "planted". It seems implausible that the name was meant to refer
> to the fact that he had been planted, so maybe "planted" was supposed
> to describe the food.
> 
> -- 
> Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon
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