Where does Thousand Island dressing get it's name?!
* The dressing was popularized by one of her dinner guests, actress May Irwin, who gave the condiment its name, after LaLonde's home, the Thousand Islands region of upstate New York and Eastern Ontario.
* The name refers to the multitude of small specks of pickle usually found in the dressing.
* George Boldt, of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel fame, popularized it by instructing his maitre d'hotel, Oscar Tschirky, to put the dressing on the hotel's menu. (Boldt had a home called Boldt Castle on one of the Thousand Islands.)
Answers: * Sophia LaLonde invented it at Chicago's Blackstone Hotel in 1910 substituting mayonnaise for the yogurt used in Russian dressing, and added pickle relish, chives and sometimes chopped hard-boiled eggs.
* The dressing was popularized by one of her dinner guests, actress May Irwin, who gave the condiment its name, after LaLonde's home, the Thousand Islands region of upstate New York and Eastern Ontario.
* The name refers to the multitude of small specks of pickle usually found in the dressing.
* George Boldt, of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel fame, popularized it by instructing his maitre d'hotel, Oscar Tschirky, to put the dressing on the hotel's menu. (Boldt had a home called Boldt Castle on one of the Thousand Islands.)
I thought it was from the thousands of islands of pickle relish suspended in it, but that's just me.
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