"Cake and Ice Cream, Toasted Marshmallows, and Marsha Brady.Baked Alaska began life in France as Omelette à la Norvégienne (which translates to Norwegian Omelet), and worked it’s way to the good old USA in the 1800’s. Legend has it that the famed chef of Delmonico’s restaurant in New York city renamed the dessert in honor of the newly formed US Department of Alaska. I have to say I like the American name much better than the French name. Norwegian Omelete just sounds odd. To each his own, I suppose. "