Chicken Marengo - On June 14, 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte
defeated the Austro-Hungarian army at the village of
Marengo, in northern Italy. After a ferocious battle, the
victorious French were ravenous. Chicken Marengo was made
from whatever ingredients they were able to take from the
village.

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Caesar Salad - In the 1920s, Caesar Cardini, owner of an
Italian restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico, and his brother,
Alex, invented a salad of romaine lettuce, anchovies,
coddled egg, lemon juice, grated Parmesan cheese, and
garlic-flavored croutons tossed with a garlic vinaigrette
flavored with Worcestershire sauce. At first it was called
Aviator's Salad, but later Cardini named the dish after
himself.

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Beef Stroganoff - A combination of beef, mushrooms, and
sour cream, Beef Stroganoff was the prize-winning recipe
created for a cooking competition held in the 1890s in St.
Petersburg, Russia. The chef who devised the recipe worked
for the Russian diplomat Count Pavel Alexandrovich
Stroganov, a member of one of Russia's grandest noble
families.