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ACTICE
Why are these foods names after places?
Baked Alaska London broil. Singapore noodles. When a food is named after a city or country, you'd
think this would indicate that the dish was either connected to or concocted in that place. But the reality
is offen lost in translation somewhere between an actual origin story and a marketing campaign.
For the most part, food names are meant to win diners and influence eaters. "You want something that
resonates with your consumers' values, and you want to stand out from your competitors," says food
historian Ken Albala, author of culinary history books such as Eating Right In The Renaissance and
Juts: A Global History. Albala also thinks some food names come from sheer ignorance, "For example
eople initially thought turkey came from Turkey," he says.
he perfect example is chicken Kiev. The basic recipe: a breaded, deep-fried chicken cutlet stuffed
h seasoned butter. It's pretty decadent but, it's not from Ukraine. Bonnie Morales, chef and co-
ner of Portland, Oregon Russian restaurant Kachka, first tasted the dish when her Soviet immigran
ents served her a TV dinner version in the 1990s. They'd never heard of it in their native Belarus.
ople don't make chicken Kiev at home," says Morales.
gh it didn't start in Ukraine, chicken Kiev seems to have first appeared on Russian menus in the
9th century. Back in Kyiv, the recipe wasn't on chefs' radars until the 1970s, when tourists boo