Thanks to the Larousse Gastronomique, invented by a pastry chef in the Swiss town of Mieringen around 1720, and brought to ably colorful: except that the French writer Massialot had already published a recipe for “Meringues” in 1691. The linguist Otto Jänicke has traced the word meringue back to an alteration of the Latin word merenda, meaning “light evening meal,” into meringa, a form that was found in the Artois and Picardie near what is now Belgium. Jänicke cites many varia-tions on merenda What do breads and road food have to do with whipped egg whites? Early baked miniature imitations of these baked goods (biscuits, being thoroughly dried and there-called meringa in northeast France. Then, when cooks from that region discovered the advantage of beating the eggs thoroughly with the new straw whisk before adding tinguish this delicate foam from its dense predecessors. Food Words: Meringue it’s widely believed that the meringue was France a couple of decades later by the Polish father-in-law of Louis XV. Sounds suit-that variously meant “evening bread,” “shepherd’s loaf,” “food taken to the field and forest,” “traveler’s snack.” sugar-egg pastes were called “biscuits,” “breads,” and “loaves” because they were fore light and durable, were standard traveler’s fare). Perhaps such a confection was sugar, the local term spread with their invention, and in the rest of France served to dis-