If you enter a restaurant in Kiev, Ukraine ordered the classic dish of chicken Kiev, most people do not know that there is a dispute over who gets the credit belongs to invent the recipe for this delicious browned butter. Not even sure if it was invented Kiev! Some say it was created by a Frenchman, and was originally named as chicken cutlets.

Of all the cities in the world who have lent their names to gourmet, Kiev should be proud of their contribution, sausage, salsa Pasta Bologna, Madras curry, but a breaded chicken breast with melted butter and pumps fresh garlic cream waiting to be released covered by, well, there may be nothing more deliciously comforting.

The man who some say is responsible for making the name synonymous with Kiev chicken breasts with garlic was Chief Nicolas Appert, who in the 18 th century has also discovered the principles of canning and preserving foods. However, it said it was the Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, who, with his great love for French cuisine, has then the dish is very popular in Russia. It was then the turn of the Americans is to take credit when they changed the name of the dish as chicken Kiev.

It is alleged that the restaurants in New York gives the dish a Russian name, in order to be able to attract thousands of Russian immigrants in New York. Now all of Europe, Kiev name associated with this most delicious homemade food.

That said, there is also another version of this dish, which comes from Vilyam Pokhlebkin, an international authority on food and beverages in Russia. His trip to Kiev, research and post back to the end of czarist Russia, where the cooks were desperate to attract wealthy clients, not only food but also entertainment – all gypsy musicians offering exotic dancers. The chop of Novomikhailovsky, the dish that was then known, was invented by a merchant in-chief of Club of St. Petersburg, and the name of the palace.

So when Bolsheviks came to power and life has just gone high this itch to return to be filed as chicken Kiev at a banquet to welcome a delegation to the home of Kiev after signing peace treaties with Eastern Europe after 1945.

From there, the smell of garlic floating in nearly all apartments in Kiev, and the heads of the main hotels in Kiev returned to old cookbooks to refresh your memory on this old classic. Chicken Kiev now extends worldwide as one of the dishes most popular. Supermarkets sell frozen versions million, and students living in accommodation in Kiev, Seattle, Cambridge, Sydney or fortunately fuel itself regularly with this retro classic recipe.

Where to go to Kiev to enjoy a chicken Kiev? Try DVOM Zaitsyami Za, which is halfway Andriyvivsky Uzviz and is also one of the most picturesque streets of the city – just remember certainly will not have the same taste as the European frozen version, but it always comes with warning is still present in "attention to this source of hot butter running across the chest.

Vlad Kogan

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