As I often write about French food, and we were eating a turkey filet mignon marinated in "french dressing" a salad dressing which I do enjoy on occasion, it got us discussing once again the word French and how it gets applied to things that are decidedly not French such as "French Fries" which are really from Beglium; French Toast (or Pan Perdue - lost bread but whose origins made with eggs dates to 1807 in the US), French Dip (invented in Los Angeles), etc. often to give the food a little extra cache'.
So, a little research this evening produced the following link to the origins of French Dressing which clearly have nothing to do with France or French food but someone named Louis French who lived in Ohio and whose wife invented the dressing to get him to eat vegetables. Fascinating.
http://maximumalexbain.com/post/31559471/the-origin-of-french-dressing
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