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Melba toastn.（名词）- Very thinly sliced crisp toast.梅尔巴吐司：一种烤得很松脆的薄面包片
- After Dame Nellie Melba 源自 女爵士 奈烈 Melba
注释- One might think that Helen Porter Mitchell has nothing named after her until one learns that Mitchell's stage name was Dame Nellie Melba,her last name being an allusion to her native city, Melbourne, Australia.This famous opera singer of the late 19th and early 20th century inspired othersto honor her by naming things,such as "soaps and sauces, ribbons and ruffles,” after her.Perhaps the most well known of such honors are Melba toast and peach Melba.Auguste Escoffier, the famous chef, is thought to have had a hand in both.Melba toast is said to be derived from the crisp toast that was part of her diet during the year 1897, a year in which she was very ill. It was supposedly namedtoast Melba by César Ritz, the hotel proprietor, in a conversation with Escoffier. Pêche Melba was supposedly created by Escoffier in 1892 for a party honoring her at the Savoy Hotel in London, although neither Escoffier nor Melba agrees with this version.Peach Melba is first recorded in English in 1905 (in the form Pêches à la Melba and Melba toast ) in 1925. 人们可能会认为没有一样东西是以海伦·波特·米切尔的名字来命名的，那只是因为他们不知道米切尔的舞台艺名为内莉·梅尔巴夫人。她的艺名中的“梅尔巴”是用来暗示其出生城市为澳大利亚的墨尔本。有人从这位19世纪末及20世纪初的著名歌剧演唱家身上得到启发，以她的名字来命名一些东西，例如“汤和甜酱，饰带与褶裥饰边”之类的东西。也许这些东西中最为著名的应是梅尔巴吐司和梅尔巴桃。据认为，奥古斯都·埃斯科菲耶这位著名的厨师也曾做过这两种东西。Melba toast 据说是得名于1897年梅尔巴夫人重病期间所食用之松脆的吐司。 据说旅馆主人塞萨尔·里茨在于埃斯科菲耶的谈话中将这种吐司命名为toast Melba 。 Peche Melba 据说是埃斯科菲耶于1892年在伦敦萨伏依旅馆为梅尔巴夫人举办的一个宴会上所创作出来的。 但是埃斯科菲耶及梅尔巴夫人本人都不同意这种说法。Peach Melba 一词在英语中最早出现于1905年（以 Peches a la Melba 和 Melba toast 的形式出现则最早见于1925年）
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