10 Iconic Foods of New York City, and Where To Find Them

From: The Village Voice

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Lobster Newberg 

Ship's captain Ben Wenberg brought a recipe for cooking lobster he'd supposedly discovered on one of his voyages to Delmonico's in 1876, and showed it to owner Charles Delmonico. It was immediately incorporated into the menu as Lobster Wenberg, but when the proprietor and captain got into a fistfight later in the year, Delmonico changed the name of the dish to Lobster Newberg by reversing the first three letters of Wenberg (the dish is now often misspelled "Newburg"). This luscious concoction features multiple crustaceans swimming in cream, cognac, sherry, and cayenne pepper -- which may indicate where Wenberg had been sailing to when he discovered the recipe (New Orleans). Delmonico's, 56 Beaver Street, 212-509-1144