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List of foods named after people

This is a list of food items named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies.

• Alfredo sauce – Alfredo di Lello
• Baby Ruth candy bars – Ruth Cleveland, daughter of Pres. Grover Cleveland
• Bechamel sauce, named after Louis de Bechamel, a courtier to King Louis XIV
• Beef Wellington – Duke of Wellington
• Chicken Tetrazzini - named for operatic soprano Luisa Tetrazzini
• Dom Perignon (wine) – Dom Perignon (1638-1715), a blind French Benedictine monk
• Garibaldi biscuits – Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Graham crackers – Sylvester Graham
• Horlicks – W. Horlick (1846-1936)
• Linzer torte – Josef Linzer
• Melba toast – Nellie Melba
• Napoleon – Napoleon Bonaparte
• Nesselrode – Count Karl Robert von Nesselrode
• Pavlova – Anna Pavlova
• Peach Melba – Nellie Melba
• Reuben – Possibly Arnold Reuben
• Sandwich – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
• Sachertorte – Franz Sacher, Vienna
• Stroganoff – named for a Count Stroganov (possibly Count Pavel Alexandrovitch Stroganov or Count Grigory Stroganov)
• Tarte Tatin – Stéphanie Tatin and Caroline Tatin
• Tournedos Rossini – Gioacchino Rossini

Food-related

• Pasteurization – Louis Pasteur

See also

• Lists of people

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