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Lobster Thermidor is a French
French cuisine

French cuisine is a style of cooking derived from the nation of France. It evolved from centuries of social and political change. The Middle Ages brought lavish banquets to the upper class with ornate, heavily seasoned food prepared by chefs such as Guillaume Tirel....
 dish consisting of a cream
Cream

Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top....
y cheesy
Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
 mixture of cooked lobster
Lobster

Clawed lobsters compose a family of large marine crustaceans. Lobsters are economically important as seafood, forming the basis of a global industry that nets United States dollar1.8 billion in trade annually....
 meat, egg yolk
Egg yolk

An egg yolk is the part of an Egg which serves as the food source for the developing embryo inside. Prior to fertilization the yolk together with the germinal disc is a single Cell ....
s, and brandy
Brandy

Brandy is a distilled_beverage produced by Distillation wine, the wine having first been produced by Fermentation grapes. Brandy contains 36%?60% alcohol by volume and is typically taken as an after-dinner drink....
 or sherry
Sherry

Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. In Spanish language, it is called Vino de Jerez....
, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven
Oven

An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. It is most commonly used in cooking and pottery. Ovens used in pottery are also known as kilns....
-browned cheese crust. The sauce must contain mustard (typically powdered mustard) in order to be true to the original recipe and to have the distinctive Thermidor taste.

Lobster Thermidor was created in 1894 by Marie's, a Paris restaurant near the theatre Comédie Française, to honour the opening of the play Thermidor by Victorien Sardou
Victorien Sardou

File:Victorien SardouVF.jpgFile:Sardou Grave.JPGVictorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is perhaps best remembered today for the play La Tosca on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca is based....
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Lobster Thermidor is a French
French cuisine

French cuisine is a style of cooking derived from the nation of France. It evolved from centuries of social and political change. The Middle Ages brought lavish banquets to the upper class with ornate, heavily seasoned food prepared by chefs such as Guillaume Tirel....
 dish consisting of a cream
Cream

Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top....
y cheesy
Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
 mixture of cooked lobster
Lobster

Clawed lobsters compose a family of large marine crustaceans. Lobsters are economically important as seafood, forming the basis of a global industry that nets United States dollar1.8 billion in trade annually....
 meat, egg yolk
Egg yolk

An egg yolk is the part of an Egg which serves as the food source for the developing embryo inside. Prior to fertilization the yolk together with the germinal disc is a single Cell ....
s, and brandy
Brandy

Brandy is a distilled_beverage produced by Distillation wine, the wine having first been produced by Fermentation grapes. Brandy contains 36%?60% alcohol by volume and is typically taken as an after-dinner drink....
 or sherry
Sherry

Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. In Spanish language, it is called Vino de Jerez....
, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven
Oven

An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. It is most commonly used in cooking and pottery. Ovens used in pottery are also known as kilns....
-browned cheese crust. The sauce must contain mustard (typically powdered mustard) in order to be true to the original recipe and to have the distinctive Thermidor taste.

Lobster Thermidor was created in 1894 by Marie's, a Paris restaurant near the theatre Comédie Française, to honour the opening of the play Thermidor by Victorien Sardou
Victorien Sardou

File:Victorien SardouVF.jpgFile:Sardou Grave.JPGVictorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is perhaps best remembered today for the play La Tosca on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca is based....
. The play took its name from a summer month
Thermidor

Thermidor was the eleventh month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the French language word thermal which comes from the Greek word "Thermos" which means heat....
 in the French Republican Calendar
French Republican Calendar

The French Republican Calendar or French Revolutionary Calendar was a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days in 1871 in Paris....
, during which the Thermidorian Reaction
Thermidorian Reaction

The Thermidorian Reaction was a revolt in the French Revolution against the excesses of the Reign of Terror. It was triggered by a vote of the Committee of Public Safety to execute Maximilien Robespierre, Antoine Louis L?on de Richebourg de Saint-Just and several other leading members of the Terror....
 occurred, overthrowing Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Fran?ois Marie Isidore de Robespierre is one of the best-known figures of the French Revolution. He was an influential member of the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror that ended with his arrest and execution in 1794....
 and ending the Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror or simply The Terror was a period of violence that occurred fifteen months after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobin Club, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." Estimates vary widely as to how many were kil...
. Unlike the recipe, the play was not a critical success and is rarely performed.

Due to expensive and extensive preparation involved, Lobster Thermidor is usually considered a recipe primarily for special occasions. A related lobster recipe is Lobster Newberg
Lobster Newberg

Lobster Newberg is an Cuisine of the United States seafood dish made from lobster, butter, cream, cognac , sherry, Egg s and Cayenne pepper. The dish was invented by Ben Wenberg, a sea captain in the fruit trade....
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A recipe can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/lobsterthermidor_73972.shtml