❌ L'histoire du "French Toast"

Let's end the day with something sweet, a 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭. 🍞🇫🇷 But is it really French?! #excusemyfrench No controversy this week! The French Toast ("pain perdu" in French) is not from France. It was created by James French, an innkeeper from Albany (US), in 1724. He intended to name it the "French's toast" but the S and the apostrophe were left out when printed... I know, it seems crazy but it's apparently true. (shootout to all the reviewers and editors in my network) The term appears in print for the first time in 1871, in the 𝐸𝑛𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘. But there was a similar recipe already at the age of the Roman empire : the "pan dulcis", later called "aliter dulcia" (according to a cookbook from the 4th century, by Apicius). This is probably why it's famous worldwide, but with different names: Spanish toast, German toast, nun's toast, eggy bread, Gipsy toast, Bombay toast, Golden bread, torrijas, wentelteefjes, rabanadas... Personally, I love the Italian version ("mozzarella in carrozza") with cheese in between the bread slices dipped in white egg and fried. But only the Americans have a National French Toast Day, on the 28th of November! What about you? How do you call it? And how do you like it? 👩🍳😋