Mpoconnor7 wrote:
>
> I was watching a show on the history of food on the History Channel and they
> discussed the fact that Chop Suey was not invented in China or the orient but
> rather in the United States. It's been a couple years since I watched that
> show, but IIRC it was an oriental guy who owned a restaurant in San Francisco
> in the late 19th or early 20th century and came up with this dish that had a
> little bit of everything in it.
>
> This show also mentioned that Alfredo Sauce was created in the US. Apparently,
> the actor Douglas Fairbanks used to eat at some restaurant in LA (it may have
> been the Brown Derby), and whenever he ate there, he had the cook make him a
> special dish which consisted of spaghetti noodles or linguine, tossed with a
> sauce made of melted butter and parmesan cheese. After a while, other patrons
> wanted to try this dish and it was put on the menu. At some point not long
> after, one of the cooks hit on the idea of adding cream to the butter and
> parmesan mixture and the result was Alfredo Sauce.
>
> Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
>
> "The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
> proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
> James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

You just had to do it, didn't you, Michael???? lol

Hope your asbestos suit holds up.

Boli