Well Eggs Benny doesn't appear to be Greek. But based on one of the origins being a hangover remedy we should consider having them every morning.
Here's the the true story of Eggs Benny from Wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggs_benedict):
Eggs Benedict is a dish consisting of slices of toast or halves of english muffins topped with smoked bacon or ham (traditionally back bacon, which in America is called Canadian bacon), poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce.
Stories differ as to the origins of the dish. One version is that it was created in the late 1880s for financier LeGrand Benedict or his wife, by Charles Ranhofer, the chef of Delmonico's restaurant in New York City after one of the Benedicts complained there was nothing new on the menu. The Epicurean, Ranhofer's comprehensive 1894 cookbook, covering thirty years' worth of Delmonico's fare, contains a recipe for an essentially identical dish under the name of "Eggs à la Benedick."
Other sources state it was the result of an order placed by stockbroker Lemuel Benedict one morning in 1894 at the Waldorf Hotel when he had a hangover. Benedict claimed in a New Yorker interview shortly before his death that his order of dry toast, crisp bacon, poached eggs and a side of hollandaise sauce had been noted, usurped and warped by Oscar Tschirky, maître d'hôtel there. Oscar substituted English muffins and Canadian bacon, and added truffles.
Some erroneously believe it is named after the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, and the dish is apparently English underneath, if prepared with an English muffin (although "English muffins" are actually American and relatively unknown in England).
Eggs Benedict may have inspired McDonalds to create the Egg McMuffin breakfast sandwich, which approximates the dish by substituting a circular, hard-cooked egg for the poached egg, and adding a slice of American cheese. The Egg McMuffin is only lacking the hollandaise sauce of the Eggs Benedict.
There is now an Eggs Benedict XVI, created to honor the German background of the recently elected pope. Sauerbraten or sausage and rye bread are the eggs' accompaniments.
Eggs Florentine is a common variation of Eggs Benedict which replaces the bacon with sauteed spinach.
A version of Artichokes Benedict has been created for the South Beach Diet, substituting cooked fresh artichokes for the muffins and using a mock hollandaise sauce to create a breakfast that is lower in carbohydrates and cholesterol than the original.
Eggs Blackstone is another common variant, substituting streaky bacon for back bacon, while adding a tomato slice.
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Well Eggs Benny doesn't appear to be Greek. But based on one of the origins being a hangover remedy we should consider having them every morning.
Here's the the true story of Eggs Benny from Wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggs_benedict):
Eggs Benedict is a dish consisting of slices of toast or halves of english muffins topped with smoked bacon or ham (traditionally back bacon, which in America is called Canadian bacon), poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce.
Stories differ as to the origins of the dish. One version is that it was created in the late 1880s for financier LeGrand Benedict or his wife, by Charles Ranhofer, the chef of Delmonico's restaurant in New York City after one of the Benedicts complained there was nothing new on the menu. The Epicurean, Ranhofer's comprehensive 1894 cookbook, covering thirty years' worth of Delmonico's fare, contains a recipe for an essentially identical dish under the name of "Eggs à la Benedick."
Other sources state it was the result of an order placed by stockbroker Lemuel Benedict one morning in 1894 at the Waldorf Hotel when he had a hangover. Benedict claimed in a New Yorker interview shortly before his death that his order of dry toast, crisp bacon, poached eggs and a side of hollandaise sauce had been noted, usurped and warped by Oscar Tschirky, maître d'hôtel there. Oscar substituted English muffins and Canadian bacon, and added truffles.
Some erroneously believe it is named after the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, and the dish is apparently English underneath, if prepared with an English muffin (although "English muffins" are actually American and relatively unknown in England).
Eggs Benedict may have inspired McDonalds to create the Egg McMuffin breakfast sandwich, which approximates the dish by substituting a circular, hard-cooked egg for the poached egg, and adding a slice of American cheese. The Egg McMuffin is only lacking the hollandaise sauce of the Eggs Benedict.
There is now an Eggs Benedict XVI, created to honor the German background of the recently elected pope. Sauerbraten or sausage and rye bread are the eggs' accompaniments.
Eggs Florentine is a common variation of Eggs Benedict which replaces the bacon with sauteed spinach.
A version of Artichokes Benedict has been created for the South Beach Diet, substituting cooked fresh artichokes for the muffins and using a mock hollandaise sauce to create a breakfast that is lower in carbohydrates and cholesterol than the original.
Eggs Blackstone is another common variant, substituting streaky bacon for back bacon, while adding a tomato slice.
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