Monday, March 5, 2018

Great Caesar!

WSJ artcle on Caesar salads - https://www.wsj.com/articles/caesar-salads-for-everyone-variations-on-a-beloved-classic-1513170000

Interesting that it came from a Tijuana restaurant.  The guy who invented it was an Italian/American guy from California named Caesar Cardini.  The restaurant was opened in Tijuana in the 1920s and was popular with people from California who would go there to eat and drink during Prohibition.  That's a very interesting statement in these times; it would be like somebody today who would take a road trip to Mexico for the afternoon so they could eat tacos and legally smoke weed.  People would assume they were a drug addict.  I wonder if in the 1920s it was assumed people were alcoholics if they crossed the border just so they could go to a restaurant and have drinks?  Different times.

You can actually buy Cardini dressing in the supermarket.  I regularly get it; it's quite good.