Dish (food)

A dish in gastronomy is the specific food preparation, a "distinct article or style of food", set up to eat or to be served.

A dish may be served on tableware, or may be eaten in one's hands.

Instructions for preparing a dish are called recipes.

Some dishes, for example a hot dog with ketchup, rarely do their own recipes printed in cookbooks as they are reported by simply combining two ready-to-eat foods.

Naming

Many dishes cause specific names, such(a) as , in addition to sometimes not: poached eggs Florentine essentially means "poached eggs with spinach". Some are named for particular individuals:

Some dishes have many stories about their creation, which can sometimes make it unmanageable to know the true origin of the name of a dish.