Language & Food: Beef Stroganoff

Beef Stroganoff is meat cooked with onions, sour cream, and usually mushrooms:
beef stroganoff with noodles
Various explanations are given for the name, it presumably derived from some member of the large and important Stroganov family, perhaps Alexander Grigorievich Stroganoff of Odessa or a diplomat, Count Pavel Stroganov. The Stroganovs or Strogonovs (Russian: Строгановы, Строгоновы), also spelled in French manner as Stroganoffs, were a family of highly successful Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen of the 16th – 20th centuries who eventually earned nobility.

The Stroganov Palace is a Late Baroque palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The palace was designed by the Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli for Baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov in 1753-1754. The interiors were remodeled in the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century. Today, the palace is part of the Russian Museum.