Delmonico Steak
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Delmonico's Restaurant Delmonico’s Restaurant was one of the first continuously run restaurants in the United States and is considered to be one of the…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Delmonico's Restaurant Delmonico’s Restaurant was one of the first continuously run restaurants in the United States and is considered to be one of the…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Delmonico's Restaurant Delmonico’s Restaurant was one of the first continuously run restaurants in the United States and is considered to be one of the…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Angel food cakeAngel food cake is a type of cake that became popular in the U.S. following the invention of the hand-crank egg-beater in the 19th century. It…
A "gut bomb" (or "gutbomb" or "gut bomber") is any food the "bombs" your "gut." Originally, a "gut bomb" was a greasy hamburger, but not…
The word "chowhound" is probably best known today from the Chowhound food website. The term began as the two words "chow hound," with "chow" meaning "food"…
A "hangover" is a result of drinking too much; a "hangover breakfast" is the first meal taken after a night's drinking spree. The term "hangover breakfast" is…
The words "hangover" and "brunch" were introduced in the 1890s and 1900s, but they weren't put together as "hangover brunch" until 1950 (the first recorded…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Devil's food cakeDevil's food cake is a rich, chocolate layer cake. Devil's food cake is aptly considered a counterpart to angel cake, that is…
Irish soda bread has long been a St. Patrick's Day treat. The name "Irish soda bread" dates in print to at least 1912, but the soda bread's "Irish" association became…
"Barbecue is as old as fire" writes John Egerton in his book Southern Food. A 1973 newspaper article about barbecue declared that "the practice is as old as fire." New York…
"Sales is vanity, profit is sanity" (or "Volume is vanity," "Turnover is vanity," "Revenue is vanity") means that it's not how much that one sells that…
The opera star Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) gave his name to the Caruso Cocktail -- gin, vermouth and crème de menthe. Most cocktail accounts agree that the Caruso cocktail had its origins in New…
The Knickerbocker Hotel (or Hotel Knickerbocker) was located on the southeast corner of Broadway and Forty-Second Street. The hotel opened in 1906, but Prohibition laws slowed business and it…
Ben's is a deli located in Manhattan at 38th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Ben's began in the 1970s on Long Island, specializing in curing its own corned beef. "We Cure…
Fettuccine (a pasta dish with Parmesan cheese, butter and cream) had been served at Italian restaurants in the 1800s, but Alfredo di Lelio's restaurant Alfredo on the Via della Scrofa in Rome…
Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940) was an Italian lyric coloratura soprano who had an enormous popularity in America from the 1900s-1920s. Several dishes were named after her, including: . Turkey…
Beef Wellington (or "Fillet of Beef a la Wellington") was served in New York City's fashionable restaurants in the 1930s and 1940s, although today it can rarely be found anywhere.…
Italian ice (also known as "water ice") is similar to a snow cone or a piragua (Puerto Rico). Each summer, many street vendors and Italian restaurants offer the flavored ice treat.…
Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic was (according to the company) first produced in 1868 in Brooklyn. The Food and Drug Administration objected to its being called a "tonic," and in the 1900s…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Ice cream soda (variations)Root beer floatAlso known as a "brown cow" "black cow", the root beer float is traditionally made with vanilla…