“Like so many things in the culinary world, it’s hard to identify a single inventor of a dish,” says Kaufman. It’s definitely possible another European chef could have started a previous version of the Baked Alaska, and Ranhofer’s stature and his visibility with the dessert is why he’s credited with its creation. Kaufman believes while Ranhofer is credited with creating the Baked Alaska and Alaska Florida, he’s not the inventor of it. “In the 1870s, they had other ways of doing it,” says historian Andrew F. In it, Ranhofer details how to make the dish with vanilla ice cream, vanilla cake and a golden brown meringue-but without the blowtorch since that didn’t come along until the 20th Century. Ranhofer’s recipe for Delmonico’s was included under the name Alaska Florida in his 1893 book The Epicurean. just took advantage of the political moment.” People like to rename things ‘we’ve done this new thing’ when it doesn’t seem to have been invented for that purpose. I don’t think the dish was invented for that purpose. “It’s kind of a patriotic commemoration of these things. “I think is a cover story for the name,” says Cathy Kaufman, a historian specializing in New York City food and drink.
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