ProbableNamed from the place
chicken Marengo
noun · first attested 19th century
Napoleon's cook almost certainly did not improvise it on the battlefield.
A braise of chicken with tomato, garlic, and wine, classically garnished with fried eggs and crayfish.
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- 19th century
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- noun
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Spinetta Marengo
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chicken Marengo
The dish commemorates the French victory at Marengo in Piedmont in June 1800, and legend has the chef Dunand scavenging a chicken, tomatoes, and river crayfish for his hungry commander. Tomatoes were barely used in French cooking then and the recipe appears in print only decades later, so the battlefield tale looks retrofitted.
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