Great for Picnics

HISTORY – A national hero for defeating Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Arthur Wellesley was made the Duke of Wellington. The Duke was quite indifferent to food, so much that his cooks often gave notice, and thus this fine filet of beef, wrapped in a puff pastry looks like a highly polished riding or Wellington boot. While his proud Chef dubbed the preparation, “Wellington Steak,” his Gaelic counterpart across the Channel, still smarting from Napolean’s defeat, simply called it, “Filet de Boeuf en Cro-te.”