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![]() ![]() ![]() Beef Stroganoff is a French dish created to honor the Russian diplomat Stroganov. Sandwiches were invented by the Earl of Sandwich, and Beef Wellington honors the Duke of Wellington. Some dishes are named after people, either for the inventor or in honor of some famous person. It also illustrates the trendiness of wordplay. Hot dog, an informal term for frankfurters, has generated Tofu Pup, a vegetarian sausage. Frankfurter, often shortened to frank, has also become a combining form, yielding new words like turkeyfurter or turkeyfrank, with each part of the word combining with new parts. Subsequently, burger has become an independent word. Vegetarian versions are veggie burgers or garden burgers. Burger became a combining form to be added to any food served with ground beef ( cheeseburger, baconburger ) or some meat instead of beef ( chickenburger, fishburger ), or for a particular style ( California burger ). Hamburger was resegmented as ham + burger, although the food is made with chopped beef. Hamburger and Frankfurter were named after the German cities of Hamburg and Frankfurt, and Wiener is from Wien, the German name for Vienna. French-fried potatoes are common in France under the name pommes frites 'fried potatoes'.Ī small number of words derived from place names have been resegmented and reanalyzed. French toast is an American dish, while homard à l'americain 'lobster American style' is a French dish. Chicken Marengo was named in honor of Napoleon's victory at Marengo. Proven çal (Provence) means made with tomato, garlic and olive oil, and chicken Kiev is chicken breast wrapped around butter, breaded, and fried, Salad Ni çoise (Nice), Mongolian hot pot, Peking duck, Buffalo wings, and baked Alaska are other examples. Veal Milanese (Milan) or Wiener Schnitzel ( Vienna) is breaded and fried veal cutlet. Florentine (named for Florence, Italy) is for dishes with spinach, Bolognese (from Bologna) is with a meat sauce, and Bologna is a sausage. Sometimes the meaning is transparent, as in Polish sausage, Belgian waffle, or Spanish omelet, but often additional knowledge is required. The meaning only indicates an origin and/or style. The commonest is a phrase with the main ingredients: chicken almond, beef and mushrooms, creamed tuna casserole, or with the cooking method as well as the food: poached eggs on toast, pork and vegetable stir-fry.Īnother common pattern is to name foods after places. Names for prepared foods follow several patterns. However, some interior parts have better-sounding food names, such as sweetbreads for pancreas, tripe for the stomach of a ruminant, roe or caviar for fish eggs, and mountain oysters for testicles. Innards like liver and kidneys are the same as the organ name. ![]() ![]() Bacon and ham denote that the meat is from a pig and that it is smoked. However, most cuts of meat have their own special names: sirloin, strip steak, lamb chop. The names of animal parts when cooked and eaten often refer to the common anatomical names, such as wing, breast, or leg of birds and rib and tongue of mammals. A few remnants of Anglo-Saxon names remain, as in oxtail soup or pigs' feet. The exceptions are words such as calf and veal or pig and pork or sheep and mutton, where the former word is of Anglo Saxon origin and the latter of French origin. Sometimes the name of the food is from the fruit (the seed-bearing part of the plant), such as apple, from apple trees, and raspberry from raspberry bushes.įood from animals usually has the same name as the animal: lamb, chicken, rabbit, quail, salmon, Dungeness crab, snails. Foods from the plant kingdom usually have the same name as the plant, such as carrot, potato, peas, and spinach. Foods are named primarily according to their origins. ![]()
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