10 dishes named after people

The dish, named in honor of some celebrity, as a rule, is insanely expensive culinary masterpiece that is not only expertly prepared, but also beautifully designed. But sometimes they invent and quite by accident, not having neither the time nor the desire, nor even enough food to cast over the strange dish.

1. / Sugar (Sabayon)

Captain Giovanni Baglioni camped outside the city walls. Provisions were few, and the soldiers moved to a nearby village to look for something to eat. But in the village with the food it was too tight, and soldiers, in the end, got just a few eggs, some sugar and a few bottles of wine. Without thinking, the soldiers all is mixed and warmed on the fire to get something like soup. But in the end they did not just chowder, and one of the dishes that brought fame to Italian cuisine. The name of this dessert was in honor of Giovanni Baglioni.

2. Cocktail Ed Victor

3. Eggs Benedict

Many people bearing the name Benedict, attribute to themselves the honor of the invention of this original dish. One of them is the broker Lemuel Benedict, who in an interview claimed that in 1894 he, looking for salvation from a terrible hangover, went to a restaurant Waldorf Hotel and asked him to make a toast with boiled eggs, bacon and hollandaise sauce. The Maitre d ' of the restaurant Oscar Tshirt was so delighted with the delicious results that immediately included him in the restaurant menu.

4. "Champagne Hemingway," or "Death in the afternoon"

5. Plum-greengage

6. Omelette Arnold Bennett

7. Red pork Mao

8. Oysters Rockefeller

9. Maps doufu or "tofu pockmarked stryapuha"

10. Soup Of Ronald Reagan