Brown Windsor soup the soup being documented in restaurant menus during the interwar years, some more recent web sources incorrectly claim there are no references to "Brown Windsor soup" prior to a joke mention, or invention, in the 1953 Ealing Studios film comedy "The Captain's Paradise". Another associates it with "Calves' Feet Soup à la Windsor", created for the "post-natal Queen Victoria" by Charles Elmé Francatelli, her chef. Etymologist Michael Quinion incorrectly reports the earliest known reference is from 1943, in "The Fancy", by Monica Dickens. As to the name, a few early White Windsor soup recipes included the use of Windsor fava
Cholera (food) Cholera (food) In the Valais region of Switzerland, a cholera is a type of savoury dish involving potatoes, vegetables and fruits baked with cheese in a pastry similar to a tart. The unusual name is linked to the history of the dish. During an epidemic of the disease cholera in 1836, people in the region improvised a dish involving pastry and whatever food they had at hand, as normal trade was disrupted. After the epidemic subsided, chefs returned to the concept of putting regional ingredients in a savoury tart, and the "cholera" dish has lasted since. Originally, the local ingredients