Sunday, 20 May 2012

... on caesar salad

I am in love with Caesar Salad. I love Caesar Salad. I want to take Caesar Salad behind the middle school and get it pregnant. I’ve had plenty of Caesar Salads in my career. When I go to a restaurant and if it is on the menu I will definitely order it. Caesar Salad is one of the most famous salads in the world.

Three years before Cardini’s death in 1956, the master chefs of the “International Society of Epicures” in Paris proclaimed Caesar’s salad as “the greatest recipe to originate from the Americas in 50 years.”




Facts about Caesar Salad
·         4th of July is National Caesar Salad Day
·         On October 20 2007 the Guiness World Book of Records, recorded the largest Caesar Salad of 3,287kg in Tijuana
·         Caesar Salad affected the production of Romaine lettuce
o   In America almost 90 000 acres of romaine lettuce are grown
o   In 1975 romaine lettuce accounted for more than 95% of all the lettuce grown in America
·         Popular TV program “Bewitched” had an episode where Caesar Salad was served
·         The Long Long Trailer was a movie featuring Lucille Ball. Lucy’s character tries to make a Caesar Salad while the trailer is swaying back and forth, very funny!
·         Traditionally the salad is dressed and placed stem side out, in a circle and served on a flat dinner plate, so that the salad could be eaten with the fingers
·         Traditional Caesar Salad is made without anchovies. Caesar’s brother Alex, added anchovies to the salad and it was named Aviator’s Salad in honor of the pilots from Rockwell Field Air Base in San Diego
·         Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson (wife of Prince Edward VIII of Wales) introduced the salad in Europe by instructing her international chefs how to make it in the great European restaurants  


Below is the link for Caesar Salad recipes. The one recipe is served at table side and the other recipe is one I created a few years back.

“Take everything to the table” he said, “and make a ceremony of fixing the salad.” 

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