There are conflicting stories about the history of the schnitzel. The most popular one is that its roots are in Milan, Italy where the Austrian General Joseph Radetzky (immortalized by Johann Strauss I’s famous Radetzky March) ate a veal cutlet covered in breadcrumbs and fried in butter. He reported his culinary “discovery” to the Austrian imperial rulers who had the recipe and technique “perfected” in Vienna. What Radetzky probably had was a Cotoletta ala Milanese, which is prepared in the same way as a Wiener schnitzel but with a cutlet of veal with the bone still in.