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alijangra | 15:20 Sun 16th Apr 2006 | Food & Drink
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What country does the recipe eggs benedict originate from?
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USA - New York claims 2 restaurants that believe they originated the recipe in the 1890s or thereabouts.

To flesh out nickmo's post, this from the What's Cooking in america web site:


Credit is given to Delmonico�s Restaurant, the very first restaurant or public dining room ever opened in the United States. In the 1860�s, a regular patron of the restaurant, Mrs. LeGrand Benedict, finding nothing to her liking and wanting something new to eat for lunch, discussed this with Delmonico�s Chef Charles Ranhofer (1936-1899), Ranhofer came up with Eggs Benedict. He has a recipe called Eggs a' la Benedick (Eufa a' la Benedick) in his cookbook called The Epicurean published in 1894.:


There are some indications there may have been other origins, but all agree on New York as the place it began...

I love the double irony that a question abour "Eggs" "Benedict" should appear on here on Easter Sunday of all days.


Easter "Eggs" and Pope "Benedict" XVI who did his first Easter Urbi et Orbi today.

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It wasnt intentional GMH! How strange.

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