Salade d’oeuf à la moscovite, homard

The French association with Russia and its food dates back to the nineteenth century, when several high-profile French chefs either cooked for Tsar Alexander I when the Tsar was in Paris in 1814 or went to Moscow and St Petersburg to open restaurants. It’s not ever been discovered whether all dishes using the terms ‘moscovite’ or ‘russe’ are actually of Russian origin; sometimes they were simply created in Russia by the French chefs, but either way, we know that the roots of this Muscovite