10 Food Items You Didn’t Know Were Named After People

2. Beef Carpaccio – Named After A Venetian Painter

Beef Carpaccio is a dish with thin slices of raw meat or fish that people enjoys with sauce. Giuseppe Cipriani invented this dish in Harry’s bar in Venice. He prepared the dish for a countess named Amalia Nani Mocenigo because her doctor had advised her to eat raw meat.

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He then named the dish after the Italian painter, Vittore Carpaccio. He was famous for the use of deep reds in his works and the color matched the red color of the beef.