By Niveditha Kalyanaraman
October 6th, 2023
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History has twisted and turned so many crevices of our life including the food we eat. There are so many popular foods that may be our favourites but did you know that some of them reflect history? Here are 5 foods named after people in history.
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It was named after a glamorous New York stockbroker called Lemuel Benedict who, looking for a hangover cure while breakfasting at the Waldorf Hotel in 1894, was served this dish.
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These currant-encrusted biscuits were first manufactured by Huntley & Palmer in 1864 and named after the Italian general Guiseppe Garibaldi who visited Britain that year.
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When Queen Margherita, the wife of the Italian king Umberto I, made a visit to Naples in 1889, a chef: Raffaele Esposito, created a new pizza that mirrored the Italian tricolour – tomato for the red, basil for the green and mozzarella for the white – and he named it after her royal highness.
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In 1987, Ben & Jerry’s launched its massively popular Cherry Garcia flavour of ice cream, named after the Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. The name had been suggested anonymously on a postcard from a fan from Maine.
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Its inherent lightness is a nod to the similarly light Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova in whose honour it was named. The pud first appeared on Antipodean restaurant menus in 1926, the year of her first tour Down Under.
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