lobster à la Newburg

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A dish of lobster cooked in a rich cream sauce and served on toast or rice

noun
/ˈlɒbstər ə lə ˈnjuːbɜːrg/

: langosta a la Newburg

The restaurant's most famous dish is its classic lobster à la Newburg.

Examples

For a special occasion, he prepared lobster à la Newburg for his guests.
She learned to cook lobster à la Newburg from a vintage cookbook.
We ordered lobster à la Newburg for dinner.
Have you ever tried lobster à la Newburg?
For a special occasion, he prepared lobster à la Newburg for his guests.
The restaurant's most famous dish is its classic lobster à la Newburg.
We ordered lobster à la Newburg for dinner.

Synonyms

lobster Newburg

vslobster à la Newburg

1 7.8

A rich dish of lobster in a creamy sauce on buttered toast or rice

is the same dish but named in a slightly different form

Surface Forms

lobster à la Newburg singular

lobster à la Newburgs plural

Morphology

lobster + à + la + Newburg

The phrase is compositionally built: 'lobster' (the main ingredient) + 'à la' (a culinary borrowing meaning 'in the style of' or 'with') + 'Newburg' (a named cream sauce). If a learner knows these constituent meanings, the overall dish meaning — lobster served with Newburg sauce — is directly derivable and follows transparent, cross-linguistic culinary naming patterns.

Etymology

Lobster à la Newburg may come from a story at a famous New York restaurant where a sea captain named Ben Wenberg brought a special lobster-and-cream recipe. The chef put it on the menu as Lobster à la Newburg, so the name now means 'lobster cooked in a rich cream sauce and served on toast or rice'.