Her recipe was stolen from the French chef Pierre Franey. It was published originally in the New York Times. I guess she couldn’t exactly put out a recipe of boiled twigs so she went in the opposite direction and published a recipe that was the favorite of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor.
Nonsense. Her Cherokee ancestors would make the migration every year from Appalachia to the shores of New England to catch crabs for their famous crab meat omelettes. Of course they didn’t have any chickens until the pale faces came, so they had to catch wild turkeys and squeeze the eggs out of them too.
They also used those eggs to make the mayonnaise for their crab with tomato mayonaise dressing recipe that they would eat during the long trek back to the mountains. Some people think the french invented mayonnaise, but that’s a lie! They stole it from the indians just like the white men stole the land.