Food Historian Honors New Pope With 'Eggs Benedict XVI'
YANKTON, S.D. (Wireless Flash) � Chew on this: The new pope is already making an impact with one South Dakota-based food historian.
Mary Gunderson has just created a new dish to honor Pope Benedict XVI�s German background that she calls � what else? � �Eggs Benedict XVI.�
The sinfully delicious dish is similar to traditional eggs benedict but replaces the English muffin with a thick slice of German rye bread and substitutes a �weisswurst� sausage or some �sauerbrauten� � a form of marinated roast beef for the ham or Canadian bacon.
But while the new pope�s name is derived from St. Benedict, Gunderson says eggs benedict has no relation to him or the Catholic church.
She says some historians say the dish was created by Delmonico�s restaurant in New York in the 1860s while others say it was invented by the Waldorf restaurant in 1894.
However, all epicurean experts agree it was named after a loyal customer whose last name was �Benedict.�