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Author
Alyse Baca | 2019-09-06
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We're drooling over Alyse's Blueberry Coriander Pavlova recipe today. This crisp meringue shell topped with blueberry-coriander sauce and mascarpone cream is the perfect summer dessert.
Do you know where the Pavlova got its name? Apparently from the famed Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She toured New Zealand and Australia in 1926, and apparently, according to our friends over at FOOD52, the chef of a Wellington hotel at the time created the billowy dessert in her honor, claiming inspiration from her tutu. Australians, on the other hand, believe the pavlova was invented at a hotel in Perth, and named after the ballerina when one diner declared it to be “light as Pavlova.” Anna Pavlova was admired all over the globe, and a lot of chefs used to name their dishes after her. In France, there were frogs' legs à la Pavlova, and in America, Pavlova ice cream.
Cheers, Anna Pavlova! Thanks for inspiring chefs everywhere.
