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Can you think of recipes with names of people/titles in them?

I'm thinking along the lines of Shepherd's Pie or General Tao's chicken, things like that.

Barring that, recipes with puns of people's names in them - like Cobb Salad (named after its inventor - Richard Cobb).

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SH5544
SH5544July 27, 2024
Steak Oskar /Diane
Potatoes O’Brien
Oysters Kilpatrick
Bananas Foster
Oysters Rockefeller

seabirdskitchen
seabirdskitchenAugust 2, 2011
There's the ever popular cole's law (aka shredded cabbage salad!)
Panfusine
PanfusineAugust 2, 2011
Melba toast & Peach Melba
Bevi
BeviAugust 2, 2011
Virgin Mary (a Bloody Mary without the vodka) Apple Charlotte, Beef Stroganoff
Hummusit
HummusitAugust 2, 2011
Hamentaschen (=Haman's ears)
Hummusit
HummusitAugust 2, 2011
Shepard's pie, [Portuguese] fisherman's pie
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A Whole Foods Market Customer
Melba Toast - like Peach Melba named after Dame Nellie Melba
nutcakes
nutcakesJuly 29, 2011
Celery Victor, named for the San Francisco chef who invented it at the St. Francis Hotel.

Crab Louis

Coquilles St. Jacques

Esther P.
Esther P.July 29, 2011
England has a rich history of these things, Molly cake, Sally lunn's buns, queen of puddings, hairy marys (also known as London cheesecakes), spotted dick (although I'm not sure if dick is a term for pudding here, or the more normal use as an abbreviation for Richard...)

Hunters chicken, And nowadays, with so many celeb cooks and chefs about, lots of recipes are prefixed with their name... I did Nigellas ham in cherry coke, jamie's pork recipe etc...
amysarah
amysarahJuly 29, 2011
Apple Brown Betty...Crepes Suzette...a charlotte...Sauce Choron...Hopping John...Johnny Cakes...
pauljoseph
pauljosephJuly 29, 2011
like nargisi kofta or http://www.elistmania.com/juice/10_foods_named_after_people/
lynncline
lynnclineJuly 29, 2011
Potatoes Anna, or Pommes de Anna, created at a leading Parisian restaurant in the 19th century and named after either the actress Dame Judic (real name: Anna Damiens), or Anna DesLions.
lorigoldsby
lorigoldsbyJuly 29, 2011
bananas harriet? bananas foster

better than robert redford cake..
skittle
skittleJuly 29, 2011
Arnold Palmer...isn't that a tea/lemonade mixture?
lynncline
lynnclineJuly 29, 2011
Janssons Frestelse, a popular Swedish dish made of potatoes. The name means Janssons' Temptation....my mom used to make it every Christmas Eve!
boulangere
boulangereJuly 29, 2011
Bananas Harriet, Sauce Louis
amysarah
amysarahJuly 29, 2011
Sarah Bernhardt cookies...Pommes Anna...Reuben sandwich (there must have been someone named Reuben involved, no?)...
seabirdskitchen
seabirdskitchenJuly 28, 2011
Pommes Parmentier? M. parmentier was a great promoter of the humble spud
cbear1984
cbear1984July 28, 2011
Oyster Rockefeller?
Kitchen B.
Kitchen B.July 28, 2011
Flying Jacob, which I've had - a delicious Swedish ovenbake of chicken, ripe bananas, peanuts and bacon. The dish was invented by Ove Jacobsson who worked in the air freight industry, hence the name.
Sam1148
Sam1148July 28, 2011
Oysters Rockefeller, a Cobb Salad.
MrsKeller
MrsKellerJuly 28, 2011
Margherita Pizza
CookOnTheFly
CookOnTheFlyJuly 28, 2011
The most basic: Sandwich, after the Earl of Sandwich!
CookOnTheFly
CookOnTheFlyJuly 28, 2011
How about Pavlova merigue? Named after the ballet dancer Anna Pavlova.
wssmom
wssmomJuly 28, 2011
Bloody Mary, purportedly named after Queen Mary, older half-sister to Elizabeth I

Peach Melba, named to honor the Australian soprano, Nellie Melba

Poire Belle Helene, named after the opera la Belle Helene, by Offenbach ....
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