Caesar Salad
Named for (US) or after (UK) chef Caesar Cardini or Gardini (1896-1956) of Tijuana, Mexico who, on the Fourth of July Weekend in 1924, invented/created this now famous dish. My question relates to the...
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Not that it proves anything, but why do I get 589 hits for Cardini and 32 for Gardini? I assume we're both putting double inverted commas round the name and using the same internet.
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Googling is an inexact science! Don't recall precisely my search criterion for OP but using "caesar cardini"+salad I now get 540 and ditto Gardini 31. Substituting 'chef' for 'salad' these numbers...
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Quote:Googling is an inexact science!I suggest that when one feels a need to quote Google numbers and when one gets small google numbers like 30's, or even 500's if one has time, they should actually...
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I wouldn't bother looking at the individual entries if you are just trying to find the magnitude of usage. Google is so inexact that any number less than 1000 or so is within the margin of error. This...
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The Barry Popik post below from ADS-L shows dates when the salad became popular in LA and New York, and how that popularity grew so much in the next decade that it resulted in a Cole Porter song...
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Here is just one of those Google hits which I think is credible. It uses an article from a VIP (Jim Rader , Merriam-Webster Inc., American Food Folklore and Culinary History): CaesarSaladFrom this, I...
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Cardini's Original Caesar dressing mix is distributed by Caesar Cardini Foods. Whether or not the company has any connexion with the inventor of the salad, it's likely that it got the spelling right.
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Something a little closer to home:***CESAR DIES / Los Angeles, Nov. 6. (U.P.) -- Funeral services were pending today for Cesar Cardini, 60, credited with originating the famed Cesar salad.***--_Nevada...
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Many thanks to all who lent me your ears and helped convince me that 'C' is the correct version - as finally evidenced by the proof of the Pud. 'Men of Lettuce,' all of you!Inevitably, in the pursuit...
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