the.com/eggs florentine
Eggs benedict's spinach-loving cousin who reads more, brags less about it.
means A brunch dish of poached eggs and spinach, usually napped in hollandaise or béchamel and set on toast or an English muffin.
from The 'Florentine' tag has nothing to do with eggs and everything to do with spinach: a long-standing French culinary convention labels any dish served on or with a bed of spinach 'à la Florentine,' a nod to the popular (if historically shaky) story that spinach-loving Catherine de' Medici, a Florentine noblewoman, brought her favorite vegetable and its cooks to France when she married into French royalty. Food historians are skeptical of the tale's specifics, but the name stuck as kitchen shorthand for 'with spinach,' and eggs florentine simply applies that label to a benedict-style brunch plate.
- not actually french
- florentine just means spinach is involved, period
- the swap
- spinach replaces ham, so it counts as healthy
- hollandaise required
- without the sauce it is just sad eggs
- catherine de medici
- florence's export credit is mostly marketing myth