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Hmm ... the weekend is here. It's time to gorge myself with yummy food. LOL. Do you know that many food are named after a famous person/personalities? In this blog, I want to introduce to you a few of yummy food which was named after a famous person, in no particular order.

1. Pavlova Meringue

Pavlova is a meringue based dessert. Though it really looks delicious, well in fact it is delicious, but I don't really like it because it's too sweet. Pavlova is made famous in New Zealand, though Australia also claimed the honour. But reading from it's name, it doesn't look like anything from New Zealand or Australia. In fact, it looks like a Russian name. It was indeed named after the famous Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova. It was believed that it was created in the honour of Anna Pavlova when she toured New Zealand in 1920s.  Photo was taken from dwenujang.blogspot.com.

2. Margherita Pizza

One of my favourite pizzas is Margherita pizza. It's really a simple pizza with tomato, basil and cheese. It was believed that Margherita pizza was named after Margherita of Savoy, the Queen of Italy. When she travelled to Naples with her husband, King Umberto, Chef Raffaele Esposito made them three specialty pizzas in his restaurant. After tasting all those pizzas, Queen Margherita of Savoy apparently love a simple pizza which only consist of mozzarella cheese, tomato and basil which was created to mimic the flag of Italy. Therefore, the pizza was named after the queen, Margherita. Photo was taken from humblefeast.wordpress.com.

3. Peach Melba

One of long list of desserts that I want to taste is the peach Melba. It is a scrumptious dessert made from peach. It was named after an Australian opera singer, Nellie Melba. It was invented by chef, Auguste Escoffier, from Savoy Hotel in London in 1890s. Photo was taken from pbs.org. The same chef later created Melba toast in her honour when she was taken ill. 

4. Beef Wellington

Whenever I watched any cooking show, the beef Wellington was always the hardest menu that any contestants had to cook. It seemed it's very hard to cook correctly and deliciously. It was believed that beef Wellington was named after the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley. It was after the victory of Battle of Waterloo and the Duke of Wellington became a national hero. Beef Wellington is basically beef steak wrapped in puff pastry and then baked. Photo was taken from realfood.tesco.com

5. Caesar Salad

Caesar salad is one of my favourite salad. Hmm ... it seems I have so many favourite foods. LOL. Anyway, I always thought that Caesar salad was named after the great Caesar. You know.. The Julius Caesar. However I was wrong. Caesar salad was in fact named after Caesar Cardini who created the salad at the restaurant in his Hotel Caesar in Tijuana. Photo was taken from gourmet-food-revolution.com.

Hmm.. writing this blog is making me hungry. So I think it's better if I stop now before I'll die of starvation. Hope you guys enjoy salivating after looking at these photos. LOL. Anyway, I hope you guys will share your favourite food(s) that is(are) named after a person.

My other Did You Know? series:-

1. Did You Know?;  2. Continuation;  3. Another Continuation;  4. Not Another Continuation!; 5. Gosh! Will It Never Ends?;  6. Oh No! Not Another One!;  7. Here Comes Another One;  8. Another One?;  9. One, Two, Eighty Six?; 10. Punishment? OMG!; 11. Is This A Swan Song?;  12 John Has It All?; 13. It's All In The Myth;  14. This Is Random;  15. It's A Dog's World;  16.  It's Also A Cat's World;  17. Is It A Mouse World Too?;  18. Dutch Flavour;  19. It's The Greek Flavour;  20. It's All Greek;  21. All That Gold; 22. It's A Horsey Year; 23. It's All Red