Lobster a la Newburg (NYT, 1894)

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   From the NEW YORK TIMES, 12 August 1894, pg. 13:

_BLOCK ISLAND BLUEFISHING_
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   The island is a favorite resort of Henry Watterson...
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   The tradition is that Sam Ward and Ben Werneberg conjointly invented that delicious preparation, "lobster a la Newburg," one day at Delmonico's, in a fit of desperation in thinking how to cook lobster in some other form than that incepted.  The truth is that Sam Ward invented the dish here, in one of his numerous and characteristic experiments in gastronomy.  Returning to New-York, he divulged the secret ot the genial epicure, the late Ben Wernberg, who thereafter called for it so often at Delmonico's in Broad Street, that the dish became popular on the menu as "lobster a la Wernberg."  It is well known that shortly after, in consequence of some misunderstanding about a stock transaction between Ben and the late Charley Delmonico, the name was changed to the now universally-popular "lobster a la Newburg," because of the similarity of the name.  It is customary for touring Englishmen to believe that, because of this nomenclature of the delightful dish, all lobsters come from Newburg.