Pavlova
As Bruce Palling explains, there are as many incarnations of pavlova as there are marsupials Down Under
By Bruce Palling
The question of which country invented the pavlova is the stuff of diplomatic nightmares. Australians, whose national dish it is, like to relate that the dessert was created shortly after Anna Pavlova’s Australasian tour of 1926. But, as Professor Helen Leach, author of “The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand’s Culinary History” reveals, that pavlova was a multi-coloured jelly, constructed in a tutu-shaped mould.
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