Dish (food) for particular places, sometimes because of a specific association with that place like Boston baked beans or "bistecca alla fiorentina". Sometimes not: "poached eggs Florentine" ends up meaning essentially "with spinach". Some are named for particular individuals, perhaps to honor them including Brillat-Savarin cheese named for the 18th-century French gourmet and political figure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, or perhaps because the dish was first prepared for them such as Chaliapin steak made by the order of the Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin in 1934 in Japan, or perhaps they named it for themselves because they invented the dish, or perhaps because
Florentine Codex Florentine Codex The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century ethnographic research study in Mesoamerica by the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún. Sahagún originally titled it: "La Historia Universal de las Cosas de Nueva España" (in English: "The Universal History of the Things of New Spain"). After a translation mistake, it was given the name "Historia general de las Cosas de Nueva España". The best-preserved manuscript is commonly referred to as the "Florentine Codex", as the codex is held in the Laurentian Library of Florence, Italy. In partnership with Nahua men who were formerly his students at the Colegio de Santa