Well, the short answer is no, but then again, it is.
It was actually created in the United States in the mid 1800’s, though it was developed by Irish immigrants.
Corned beef and cabbage is often the first food we think of when it comes to St. Patrick’s Day.
But the custom of serving it for this holiday is relatively new.
The traditional Irish dish combines Irish bacon and cabbage.
The Irish bacon, the much-loved, much-missed dish that Irish immigrants of the nineteenth century were trying to make when they came to North America...and when they couldn't get the pork they really wanted, they made do with salted (corned) beef instead.
But when the the Irish immigrants came to America, they were introduced to corned beef by their Jewish neighbors, and those who could not afford the more costly bacon substituted it, eventually forming a new tradition.
Did you know Abraham Lincoln’s Innagural Dinner
was Corned Beef and Cabbage?
