This is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night. According to virtually all salad dressing historians, this famous salad was invented in 1924 by Cesar Cardini in Tijuana, Mexico. It doesn't appear on any written menus or cookbooks until decades later, and when it does, it's called the "Caesar."
What happened? I realize the inventors name, Cesar, is Spanish for the Latin, Caesar, but so what? The salad was invented by a Cesar, not Caesar. It's not like it was changed to make it easier to say, or to Americanize it. Anyone have any ideas?
While your mulling that over, why not try my version of this great dressing, which I've just posted. By the way, as if it wasn't bad enough we don't use the inventor's real name, almost all modern versions use anchovies, which Ceasar, er, sorry, I mean Cesar, never used.
Photo (c) John Mitzewich
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