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Do you know where Schnitzel originated? Wiener Schnitzel is known as the country's national dish BUT did the Schnitzel really originate in Vienna? It may actually have originated in northern Italy as costoletta alla Milanese, a similarly prepared piece of veal. Legend has it that in 1857 Austrian Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky brought the recipe back from Italian territories under the Habsburg rule, adding a note in his report to the emperor about a “deliciously breaded veal cutlet.”