Eggs benedict

[alijangra]

What country does the recipe eggs benedict originate from?

[nickmo]

USA - New York claims 2 restaurants that believe they originated the recipe in the 1890s or thereabouts.

[Clanad]

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...

[GMH]

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.

[alijangra]

It wasnt intentional GMH! How strange.