As expected, it's a little difficult tracing someone's life so long ago. However, an advertisement from Cardini's restaurant in suggests he moved to California in the s. Early records document his first joint venture in Sacramento. There is also evidence that he worked at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
Later, he opened another restaurant in San Diego. However, in , Prohibition threw a wrench in his restauranteur dreams. It was shortly after this that he invented his famous salad. Restaurants took a hit after Prohibition began. After all, alcoholic drinks have one of the biggest profit margins of any item at any restaurant. Cardini was looking for a place to avoid these costly rules.
This landed him in Tijuana, Mexico. Cardini's daughter, Rose, claims her father was cooking at his restaurant when he ran short on ingredients and threw the salad together. Of course, the facts here are hard to follow. Some claim it was actually Caesar's brother, Alex, who created the salad. Alex did go on to open his own restaurants in Mexico City. But the truth or the closest we can get to it is that this global favourite was created by an Italian-American restaurateur, who had received classic French training and owned an establishment in Mexico - a real fusion dish before fusion food was even a thing.
According to his daughter Rosa, Caesar Cardini invented the salad in in Tijuana, where he had opened a restaurant to attract Americans clients frustrated by Prohibition. Like many other dishes born from constraints, or from genuine mistakes made following a recipe hello, tarte tatin , this impromptu concoction encountered a stellar success.
A number of Cardini's staff have also declared to have invented the dish, without any serious proof. It then travelled to Europe - where it is said to have been introduced by none else but Mrs Wallis Simpson, and eventually all over the world.
In her cookbook From Julia Child's Kitchen , published in , legendary American chef Julia Child remembers the day she visited Cardini's restaurant in the s. Caesar himself rolled the big cart up to the table, tossed the romaine in a great wooden bowl, and I wish I could say I remembered his every move, but I don't.
He called his version the "Aviator's salad. Like most origin stories, this one is difficult to prove. The incredible combination of ingredients that goes into a Caesar salad may have come together in different variations, in Tijuana or elsewhere. Regardless, the dish grew famous in Tijuana. My parents, of course, ordered the salad. Caesar himself rolled the big cart up to the table, tossed the romaine in a great wooden bowl, and I wish I could say I remembered his every move, but I don't.
They only thing I see again clearly is the eggs. I can see him break 2 eggs over that romaine and roll them in, the greens going all creamy as the eggs flowed over them. Two eggs in a salad? Home News History of the Caesar Salad. History of the Caesar Salad. By Matt Blitz Updated March 02, Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team.
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