Edible Icons!

 

The Others…

·         Not content with laying claim to the Waldorf Salad alone, The Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York is also the place where Eggs Benedict was first invented in 1894 at the behest of a Wall Street stockbroker named Lemuel Benedict, who instructed the chef to construct his poached eggs dish just the way he wanted them—Hollandaise sauce et al! 

·         An unknown hotel chef in Wellington, New Zealand, is said to have created the cloud-like meringue and fruit dessert we know today as the Pavlova for the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who visited there in 1926 on her world tour.

·         We have the American hotelier Bertha Palmer of the Palmer House in Chicago to thank for the diet/stress/blues-busting gooey Brownie,s who created it along with her chef at the hotel for the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.

·         It was in 1892 when Dame Nellie Melba, the famed Australian opera singer paid a visit to The Savoy in London, that the equally legendary French pâtissier Auguste Escoffier created the Peach Melba in the prima donna’s honour.

(An edited version of this article first appeared in the January 2018 issue of Jetwings Domestic in-flight magazine of Jet Airways https://www.jetairways.com/EN/DE/JetExperience/magazines.aspx)