Brownie
November 10, 2008
brownie/ BROWN ee/ n./ The delicious, dense dessert invented in Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, if you believe the undocumented local lore. As the story goes, Bertha Palmer, wife of Palmer House owner Potter Palmer, asked the hotel's chef in 1892 to come up with something special to put in box lunches for the fair. Still known as the Palmer House Chocolate Fudge Brownie, it features chocolate, walnuts and a subtle apricot glaze.
