Did You Know

Chicken A' La King - This is a rich chicken dish that uses lots of cream with pimentos and sherry. It is served either on hot buttered toast, pastry shells, or in a nest of noodles. There are several stories/legends as to who created this dish. A few are as follows: 

1880s - It is said to be created by the chef at the Delmonico restaurant in the 1880s after Foxhall P. Keene, horse breeder and well-heeled son of Wall Street broker and horse breeder, James R. Keene (1838-), known as "Silver Fox of Wall Street." Supposedly Foxhall dreamed aloud to him about a pimento-studded cream sauce. The chef made the dish and called it Chicken a' la Keene. This later evolved into the more regal-sounding Chicken a' la King. Charles Ranhofer, a French chef, was the chef at Delmonico's from 1862 to 1896.