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 – StÃÂéphanie Tatin and Caroline Tatin
- Tournedos Rossini – Gioacchino Rossini