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
Hot Brown and tomato open-faced on rye bread, and covered with Thousand Island dressing. It is rarely served anymore. In St. Louis, the Prosperity Sandwich is a similar dish, with origins at the Mayfair Hotel in the 1920s. It is still served in the area today, and sometimes called a "hot brown". The Turkey Devonshire, first served in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1930s, has been described as being similar to the Hot Brown. On the Food Network, the Hot Brown was featured in an episode of "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay". Joe and John Castro, chefs of the Brown Hotel in Kentucky, competed