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Chicken Kyiv is not from Kyiv? 10 classic dishes named after places

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Some dishes are named after people, like Caesar salad or Fettuccine Alfredo, while others are simply a description of their main ingredients, like lobster rolls or clam chowder. However, some famous dishes are named after the cities, regions, or countries where an inspired cook created them. The following 10 go from the obvious to the surprising, so stick around and prepare to crave at least one of these!

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Since buffaloes don’t have wings, it’s safe to assume that the name origin for this delicious treat must come from something else. And, as the story goes, Teressa and Frank Bellissimo of Buffalo, N.Y.’s Anchor Bar created the dish in 1964. Supposedly, the restaurant received a shipment of chicken wings instead of backs and necks, so Teressa put them in the fryer and coated them with tangy hot sauce.

Another version of the story, as told by the couple’s son, Dominic, states that Frank first created the wings on a Friday night to provide his Catholic customers with something to eat when the clock struck midnight during Lent.

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Philadelphia’s prodigal lunch, the Philly cheesesteak, is arguably the city’s most famous delicacy. The grilled beef sandwiches were first made in 1930 and served at Pat’s King of Steaks, consisting of just grilled beef and white onion on a toasted roll, though provolone cheese was added to the recipe in the 1940s. These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a deli not selling a cheesesteak in Philadelphia.

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A dressing defined by its creamy texture and tangy, salty, and slightly sweet flavor, Thousand Island was supposedly created by Sophia LaLonde in Clayton, N.Y. Her husband, George LaLonde Jr., was a fishing guide through the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River and provided meals for his tour parties. One part of the meal included "Sophia’s Sauce," a recipe that was later shared with the owners of the Herald Hotel. There, the dressing was first served to the public, where it was given its present-day name.

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A hearty pasta recipe, spaghetti bolognese was named after its place of origin, the city of Bologna, Italy. This meat-based sauce, very commonly used across the world to accompany noodles, is known to Italians as ragù alla Bolognese, but in the city of Bologna itself, the dish is known simply as ragù.

While the Bolognese sauce is a staple in Italian cuisine, the version served with spaghetti is more of an American adaptation. The Italian version is traditionally served with pasta like tagliatelle or pappardelle. The sauce is often used in lasagna as well.

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A city in southwest Germany, Frankfurt, is responsible for these delicious sausages, also known as hot dogs in the United States and Europe. Traditional Frankfurters are made from a blend of pork and beef. The meat is finely ground, mixed with salt, spices, and other seasonings, and then stuffed into a casing.

These sausages typically served in a bun, later became known as hot dogs, franks, wieners, or weenies. Nowadays hot dogs are a staple at American barbecues, baseball games, and street food vendors.

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A wild cabbage that thrived in the moderate climate of Brussels, Belgium, the sprouting vegetable originated in that city and is named after it. The Netherlands later became the largest exporter of Brussels sprouts, although they are currently grown around the world, including the U.S.

Brussels sprouts have a slightly bitter taste and a firm texture. When cooked properly, Brussels sprouts can be tender with a slightly nutty or sweet flavor. They are a traditional vegetable in Belgian cuisine, often included in festive and seasonal dishes.

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One would be forgiven to believe that such a quintessentially American dish as the hamburger was created in the United States but the beef patty that goes inside the bun was actually created in Germany. A local snack in the city of Hamburg named frikadelle, was served on its own. However, Americans developed the sandwich we know and love today by placing the patty inside a bun with salad. The dish’s popularity soared and has become one of the most enduring foods of the past 250 years.

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The only item in this list that is not a food per se, but a drink, champagne is a prime example of something edible that was named after a place. This sparkling wine is produced exclusively in the Champagne region of France and has forever been associated with luxury.

In its early days, champagne was enjoyed only by French royalty, but today it is celebrated by millions of people around the world on special occasions.

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The second "only" on this list goes to the dish with a deceiving name. While the Chicken Kyiv is the national dish of Ukraine (of which Kyiv is the capital), its origins are more likely French.

During the early 1900s, French cuisine was very popular across Russia, and Empress Elizabeth sent many of her best chefs to France to study it. One of the dishes brought back and adapted was Cotelettes de volaille, a chicken dish that is very similar to the modern Chicken Kyiv. This dish was served in Kyiv to delegations returning from Berlin after the World Wars.

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A dish that is becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. is the Korean barbecue. This preparation consists of marinated beef rib cross-sections cooked over direct heat. As its name implies, it comes from Korea.

Although Korean barbecue refers to several meat-based Korean entrées, including bulgogi (beef) and spicy pork, the most common type of meat associated with the term is the short rib variety.

BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING

The Matilda Effect: 10 Innovations By Women That Were Attributed To Men

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Did you know that women made many scientific contributions, but their names were hidden and their discoveries attributed to men? This phenomenon is so common that it even has a name: the Matilda Effect. American historian of science Margaret W. Rossiter coined the term in 1993 in honor of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a prominent suffragist and abolitionist who had highlighted the importance of women inventors almost a century earlier. In an attempt to give them back at least some of the recognition they deserve, in this article, we have selected 10 women who changed the history of humanity.

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Probably one of the best examples of the Matilda effect is the story of British scientist Rosalind Franklin. While doing research at King's College in London in 1951, Rosalind discovered that the molecule of DNA existed in a helical conformation when she was taking X-ray photographs of the structure. She presented her findings, which included a picture of the double helix, at a conference attended by the American molecular biologist James Watson.

Later, this important finding was the basis for Watson and Francis Crick's research on the subject. In 1953 the scientists published a study attaching the photograph taken by Rosalind without giving her credit for it. Watson and Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. Rosalind had died four years earlier without ever receiving recognition for her work.

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In 1967, British scientist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was studying for her PhD at Cambridge when she noticed signals repeating at regular intervals through the radio telescope she was working on. It was the first step in the discovery of pulsars, stars that emit very small radiation.

The findings appeared in scientific journals signed by her advisor, the astrophysicist Antony Hewish, as first author. For this reason, it was only Hewish who received the Nobel Prize in 1974. At the time, the academy ignored her altogether, although now the entire scientific community accepts that it was Jocelyn Bell Burnell who first made the observation.

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The prehistory of computer science was blessed with the invaluable contribution of Ada Lovelace, one of the most exciting characters of the 19th century, not only because of her lineage —she was the daughter of the great poet Lord Byron— but also because she was a pioneer in computer programming.

Her excellent notes to mathematician Charles Babbage's work on the "analytical machine" are

considered the first approaches to computer algorithms. Although Babbage himself acknowledged Lovelace's merit, his contemporaries tried to minimize her contribution based on Ada's eccentric nature and, above all, for being a woman. Fortunately, today her achievements are vindicated: Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated every second Tuesday in October as a way of honoring women's contributions to science and technology.

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This Chinese scientist is one of those women who deserve an extensive biopic for having dedicated almost her entire life to working passionately on the development of science. Emigrated to the United States before World War II, Chien-Shiung Wu was part of the team that worked on the Manhattan Project and the birth of the atomic bomb.

After the war, scientists Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang formulated the theory that the principle of conservation of parity was not valid and asked Chien-Shiung Wu to join in proving the ineffectiveness of this then-commonly accepted law. Although it was her work that finally disproved the theory, only Lee and Yang were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957. Be as it may, her legacy is not entirely invisible: she is now known as the "First Lady of Physics" or "the Chinese Madame Curie" for her contributions to experimental physics.

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Hollywood star by day, researcher by night, Austrian-American actress Hedy Lamarr was not only a beauty icon of the 1940s but also responsible for developing a secure communications system called "frequency hopping."

Lamarr patented her invention in 1942, but unfortunately, at the time she was not given any credit due to the widespread belief that women could not be scientists or inventors and the fact that she was an actress. It wasn't until many years later that her work was finally recognized and became the basis for the development of technologies we use every day, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS. So now you know, it’s thanks to Hedy Lamarr's groundbreaking invention that today we can send messages, make calls, and connect to the internet without any wires.

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Unfortunately, the story of Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg is very common, not only in science but also in other disciplines such as art and philosophy. Lederberg was a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University and did pioneering work in genetics, yet it was her husband who took all the credit.

Esther and Joshua Lederberg specialized in research on bacterial colony transfer. It was she who, in 1951, discovered a virus that infects bacteria. Together they developed a transfer technique, called the Lederberg Method, which is still used today. But in 1958, her husband received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and during the award ceremony, he didn’t mention Esther, even though the work had been done in collaboration.

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You've probably heard of Katherine Johnson thanks to the 2016 three-time Academy Award- nominee Hidden Figures. But before her film fame, Johnson was only known at NASA, where she worked for 35 years in the Space Task Group.

Her journey, however, was not an easy one. Her accomplishments often went unrecognized by her male co-workers, and she faced double discrimination: as a woman and as an African-American. Despite this, and thanks to her brilliant mathematical skills, Johnson gradually earned a place on the teams that worked on the first spacecraft launch in 1961 and her tireless work ultimately helped send astronauts to the moon in 1969.

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In 1938, Austrian physicist Lise Meitner had to flee Nazi Germany for being Jewish. Settled in Sweden, she embarked on a research on uranium with her laboratory partner, the German chemist Otto Hahn. Shortly thereafter, they discovered that the act of splitting atomic nuclei during "fission" releases enormous amounts of energy.

Although it was Meitner herself who wrote the first theoretical explanation of the process after the discovery, it was only Hahn who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1944. Well, not everything is lost, although she wasn’t awarded, she has an element of the periodic table named after her, meitnerium.

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American biologist and geneticist Nettie Stevens had the misfortune of discovering the XY chromosomes at exactly the same time as another —male— scientist in 1905. After receiving a master's degree from Stanford and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr, Stevens set out to revive and explain the genetic research of Austrian-Czech biologist Gregor Johann Mendel.

But Edmund Beecher Wilson also published his findings about the chromosomal XY sex-determination system and was widely praised as the sole discoverer. Interestingly, the two reports differed slightly: Wilson claimed that environmental factors determined sex, while Stevens thought it was only genetic. Lo and behold, time has proven that Nettie Stevens was right.

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Vera Rubin was a pioneering and brilliant American scientist. Through her research, she managed to convince the scientific community of the existence of dark matter, considered a scientific milestone and one of the great persistent mysteries of the universe.

Her work was also a forerunner in the study of the rotation of spiral galaxies. However, despite being one of the most influential astronomers of her time, Vera Rubin was not awarded the Nobel Prize nor did she receive the same recognition as some of her male colleagues. Perhaps this is why Vera dedicated her life to relentlessly advocating for the advancement of women in science, inviting them to important conferences and awarding them prizes in fields that historically were exclusive to men.