Snobby food: How do they get their names?

There are some famous dishes whose names are really interesting and people do not know anything about their origins. I want you to know some curiosities about several dishes if you want to go to a posh restaurant and order some of them.

The first dish is Beef Stroganoff. It was the prize-winning recipe of a competition held in 1890 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The chef who invented the recipe worked for a member of a Russian noble family called Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov.

The next dish is made up of meat, too. This is called Beef Wellington and it has been named in Duke Wellington's honor. The origin of this famous dish goes back to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.The Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley) was considered a national hero for defeating Napoleon and he also loved this particular dish.

The third dish is called Caesar Salad. This is a nice salad flavored with Worcestershire sauce which was invented by a Mexican chef called Caesar Cardini. At first it was called Aviator's salad but later the chef named the dish after himself.

Chicken Marengo dates back to the battelfield as well as Beef Wellington. It is a French dish invented by Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers who defeated the Austro-Hungarian army at the village of Marengo (in northern Italy). They obtained this dish by taking whatever ingredients of the village they were able to.

Another dish is Eggs Benedict. They were created in response to a complaint of some regulars called Mr. and Mrs. LeGrand Benedict at the Delmonico's restaurant in New York. They asked for something new because claiming that the menu was always the same, so the chef dedicated this dish.

The last dish is Melba Peach which was created in honor of Australian opera singer called Dame Nellie Melba. The french chef Auguste Escoffier worked in the Ritz Hotel in the early 1900s, the period when Melba performed regularly at the Covent Garden opera house.