peach Melba
food
Also known as: péche Melba
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Peach melba is a dessert consisting of half a peach filled with cream, served on a bed of vanilla ice cream and topped with raspberry sauce. This dessert was created by Auguste Escoffier, a chef at London's Savoy Hotel, in honor of the Australian opera singer Nellie Melba. Nellie Melba's birth name was Helen Porter Mitchell, and she was so renowned that several foods were named after her, including peach melba, melba toast, and melba sauce.12
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