| Dish |
Named in honour of |
Main ingredients |
Notes |
| Baco Noir |
Maurice Baco |
grape |
[7] |
| Baldwin apple |
Loammi Baldwin |
Apple variety |
[8] |
| Chicken Cardinal la Balue |
Cardinal Jean la Balue (1421–1491) minister to Louis XI |
Chicken, crayfish, and mashed potatoes |
|
| Bartlett pear |
Enoch Bartlett |
Pear variety |
[9] |
| Battenberg cake |
The Princes of Battenberg family |
colourful cake |
|
| Béarnaise sauce |
Henry IV of France |
|
[10] |
| Béchamel sauce |
Louis de Béchamel |
Scalded milk and roux. |
|
| Bellini (cocktail) |
Giovanni Bellini |
Sparkling wine (e.g. Prosecco) and peach purée |
|
| Ham mousseline à la Belmont |
August Belmont (1816–1890) |
Ham |
|
| Eggs Benedict |
Lemuel Benedict |
Eggs, Bacon, Hollandaise sauce, English Muffin |
[11] or |
Commodore E.C. Benedict or
Mrs LeGrand Benedict |
[1] |
| Eggs Benedict XVI |
Pope Benedict XVI |
Rye bread and sausage or sauerbraten replace the English muffins and bacon |
[12] |
| Eggs Berlioz |
Hector Berlioz |
, soft-boiled eggs, croustades, duchesse potatoes, and truffles and mushrooms in a Madeira sauce. |
| Beyti kebap |
Beyti Güler |
roasted lamb fillets wrapped in strips of lamb cutlet fat |
[13]. |
| Bibb lettuce |
John B. Bibb |
Lettuce variety |
[14]. |
| Oysters Bienville |
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
baked oysters in a shrimp sauce |
[15] |
| Bing cherry |
Ah Bing |
Cherry variety |
[16] |
| Bismarck herring |
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) |
pickled herring |
[17] |
| Bismarcks |
Berliner Pfannkuchen, so called in Canada and the US |
| Schlosskäse Bismarck |
Type of cheese |
| Oeufs moulés Bizet |
Georges Bizet |
Eggs, tongue, artichoke hearts |
| Consommé Bizet |
|
| Sole Bolivar |
Simón Bolívar
South American revolutionary |
Sole |
|
| Bonaparte's Ribs |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
|
[18] |
| Boysenberry |
Rudolph Boysen |
loganberry/raspberry/blackberry cross |
|
| Brillat-Savarin cheese |
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin |
Type of Cheese |
[19] |
| Consommé Brillat-Savarin |
Chicken consommé, savoury pancakes |
| Croutes Brillat-Savarin |
Calves' or lambs' sweetbreads |
| Oeufs en cocotte Brillat-Savarin |
Eggs, noodles, asparagus |
| Flan Brillat-Savarin |
Scrambled Eggs, truffles |
| Savarin cake |
Flour, sugar, eggs, almonds |
| Timbale Brillat-Savarin |
Brioche, macaroons, pears, crèmè pâtissière |
| Hot Brown |
J. Graham Brown |
Hot Sandwich |
|
| Parson Brown orange |
Rev. Nathan L. Brown |
Orange variety |
[20] |
| Burbank plum |
Luther Burbank (1849–1926) |
Plum variety |
[21] |
| Dish |
Named in honour of |
Main ingredients |
Notes |
| Bloody Caesar cocktail |
Julius Caesar |
Created by Canadian bartender Walter Chell. |
| Caesar's mushroom |
probably named for Julius Caesar |
Mushroom of southern France |
is also called the King of Mushrooms |
| Caesar potato |
|
|
| Caesar salad |
Hotel Caesar in Tijuana |
|
[22] |
| Carpaccio |
named for painter Vittore Carpaccio |
Thinly sliced raw beef. |
Carpaccio was known for using a red colour which looked like that of raw beef |
| Caruso sauce |
Enrico Caruso |
|
|
| Galantine of pheasants Casimir Perier |
Jean Casimir Perier |
pheasant |
Charles Ranhofer named these dishes after this French president. |
| Palmettes Casimir Perier |
|
| Apple Charlotte |
Queen Charlotte |
fruite puree |
a baked dish, |
| Charlotte Russe |
Czar Alexander I |
Bavarian Cream, Sponge fingers |
An uncooked dish, renamed in honour of Marie-Antoine Carême's employer ("Russe" being the French equivalent of the adjective, "Russian") in the Second Empire. Carême called his creation Charlotte à la parisienne. |
| Charlotte Corday |
Charlotte Corday (1768–1793), |
|
the assassin of the radical Jean-Paul Marat was paid tribute with an ice cream dessert by Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico's |
| Chateaubriand |
Vicomte François René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848 |
Steak |
a cut and a recipe named for Chateaubriand, by his chef Montinireil. Probably around 1822 while he was ambassador to England. There is also a kidney dish named for him. |
| Chiboust cream |
French pastry chef Chiboust |
Cream filling |
Invented by the French pastry chef Chiboust in Paris around 1846, for his Gâteau Saint-Honoré. The filling is also called Saint-Honoré cream. |
| Choron sauce |
Alexandre Étienne Choron |
|
|
| Christian IX cheese |
King Christian IX of Denmark (1818–1906) |
Caraway-seeded semi-firm Danish cheese. |
| Chaudfroid of chicken Clara Morris |
Clara Morris (1848–1925) |
Chicken |
Charles Ranhofer named this dish for the popular 19th-century American actress. When the taste in drama changed in the 1890s and she turned to writing. |
| Clementines |
Père Clément Rodier |
Type of citrus fruit |
|
| Cleopatra Mandarin orange |
presumably, Cleopatra VII (69–30 BC), |
fruits |
|
| Cleopatra apple |
| Peach pudding à la Cleveland |
Grover Cleveland |
Peaches |
Charles Ranhofer seemed to feel presidents deserved desserts named after them, like Escoffier did ladies, even if Cleveland was reputed to not much like French food. |
| Veuve Clicquot |
Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin |
Champagne brand |
Ponsardin was the widow (French: veuve) of François Clicquot. |
| Cobb Salad |
Robert H. Cobb |
|
Cobb owned the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant, and is said to have invented this as a late-night snack for himself in 1936–1937. |
| Scrambled eggs à la Columbus |
Christopher Columbus |
eggs ham, blood pudding and beef brains |
|
| Cox's Orange Pippin |
Richard Cox (1777–1845) |
Apple variety |
Named after its developer in Buckinghamshire |
| Cumberland Sauce |
Ernst August of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland |
Sauce for game |
|
| Lady Curzon Soup |
Lady Curzon, née Mary Victoria Leiter (1870–1906) |
turtle soup with sherry |
Allegedly, she directed the inclusion of sherry when a teetotalling guest prevented the usual serving of alcohol at a dinner, around 1905. Lady Curzon was the daughter of Chicago businessman Levi Z. Leiter, who co-founded the original department store now called Marshall Field. |
| Dish |
Named in honour of |
Main ingredients |
Notes |
| Dartois |
François-Victor-Armand Dartois (1780–1867) |
Several versions of this pastry, some sweet, some savoury |
Dartois was once very well-known author of French vaudeville plays |
| Shrimp DeJonghe |
The DeJonghe Brothers |
shrimp and garlic casserole |
created at DeJonghe's Hotel, 1n early-20th-century Chicago, owned by brothers from Belgium. |
| Sirloin of beef à la de Lesseps |
Ferdinand de Lesseps |
Beef |
Ranhofer named this beef dish after de Lessep, following a dinner in his honour. A banana dessert from the same dinner was afterward termed "à la Panama." ,probably well before de Lesseps' 1889 bankruptcy scandal. |
| Delmonico steak |
Delmonico's Restaurant |
Steak |
Two of the many dishes named after the restaurant in the United States, or the brothers who owned it. |
| Lobster à la Delmonico |
Lobster |
| Chicken Demidoff |
Prince Anatole Demidoff (1813–1870) |
Chicken, elaboratedly stuffed, smothered, tied up and garnished |
There are two chicken dishes named after him, and the Demidoff name is also applied to dishes of rissoles and red snapper. |
Veal pie à la Dickens
|
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
Veal |
Two dishes from Delmonico’s menu, probably from around the time Dickens was making his second visit to New York in 1867. |
| Beet fritters à la Dickens |
Beetroot |
| Doboschtorte or Dobostorta |
Josef Dobos |
multi-layered chocolate torte |
Created by Josef Dobos, a well-known Hungarian pastry chef, in Budapest or Vienna. |
| Dongpo's pork |
Su Dongpo (1037–1101), poet |
squares of pork, half lean meat and half fat, pan-fried then braised. |
|
| Potage à la Du Barry |
Madame du Barry |
Cauliflower, potato, consommé, cream |
Several dishes cauliflower based dishes arenamed for her. It was said to be a reference to her elaborate powdered wigs. |
| Salade Du Barry |
Cauliflower, radishes |
| Sole Dubois |
Urbain Dubois 19th-century French chef |
Sole |
(see Veal Prince Orloff) |
| Sole Dugléré |
Adolphe Dugléré (1805–1884) |
Sole |
Dugléré, started as a student of Antonin Carême, when he became head chef at the famed Café Anglais in Paris in 1866, he began creating and naming many well-known dishes. Several fish dishes bear his own name. |
| Salad à la Dumas |
Alexandre Dumas, père |
Various salads |
Apparently a favourite of
Charles Ranhofer |
| Mushrooms à la Dumas |
|
| Stewed Woodcock à la Dumas |
|
| Timbale à la Dumas |
|
| Duxelles |
Nicolas Chalon du Blé, marquis d'Uxelles |
a mushroom-based sauce or garnish |
D’Uxelles employed French chef François Pierre La Varenne (1615–1678), who created the dish. A variety of dishes use this name. |