Today, April 4, 2014, is National Cordon Bleu Day. A Cordon bleu is meat wrapped around cheese (or with cheese filling), then breaded and pan fried or deep fried. The origins of original cordon bleu as a schnitzel filled with cheese are in Switzerland, probably around the 1940s, first mentioned in a cookbook from 1949. The French term Cordon Bleu is translated as "Blue Ribbon.
