Another person that claims to have invented Caesar Salad

While there is no documentation to prove this, it is worth noting.
in 1903

In George Leonard Herter's Book the Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices VOL ll he talks about who he thinks invented Caesar salad.

"Caesar salad was invented in about 1903 by Giacomo Junia, an Italian cook in Chicago, Illinois. Giacomo Junia was the cook in a small restaurant called The New York Cafe. He catered to American tastes as spaghetti and pizza in those days were little eaten by anyone including Italians. It is sometimes falsely stated that this salad was invented in Tijuana, Mexico during the prohibition period and also in San Francisco. Nothing could be further from the truth. The only thing invented in Tijuana were the finest methods every produced to clip tourists. 

Giacomo Junia called the salad Caesar Salad. He put a few pieces of Cos lettuce (romaine) in the salad to add a slightly bitter touch to it. . . Giacomo called the salad Caesar Salad after Julius Caesar, the greatest Italian of all time. . . . Junia never thought that the salad would be popular and was more surprised than anyone when people began to ask for it. Many itinerant cooks learned how to make the salad and soon it was made all over North America and even in Europe."

Here is more information that debunks this idea, and also that Webster and Britanica had it wrong.

This is reprinted from an article by
Jim Rader , Merriam-Webster Inc.
American Food Folklore and Culinary History:

A totally heterodox origin for "Caesar salad" appears in the 3rd edition of "Webster's New World": "so named in honor of (Gaius) Julius Caesar by Giacomo Junia, Italian-American chef in Chicago, who invented it c. 1903." Journalists only bring this etymology up to heap scorn on it (demonstrating by the way their complete incomprehension of the meaning of "Webster" in dictionary titles.)

The documentation of the collocation "Caesar salad"/"Caesar's salad" is thin. The first cite Merriam has is from the "Britannica Book of the Year, 1950", from the article "Fads of 1949": "In foods, fads were limited. Caesar salad was in vogue through the summer and fall, and slot-machine hot dogs still prevailed in the larger cities" (pp. 273-74). There have to be earlier cites out there, even if only from 1949, when the salad was supposedly popular (suggesting it had been regional until then?). 

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Who invented the Caesar Salad?

There are many claims as to who invented Caesar salad.

Caesar (Cesare) Cardini Caesar was born near Lago Maggiore, Italy, in 1896; he and his brother Alex emigrated to the U.S. after World War I. The Cardini's lived in San Diego but operated a restaurant in Tijuana to circumvent Prohibition. 

According to Caesar's daughter Rosa, on July 4th 1924 the salad was created on a busy weekend at Caesar's Restaurant. It is said that Caesar was short of supplies and didn't want to disappoint the customers so he concocted this salad with what was on hand. To add a flair to this he prepared it at the table. This story is not certifiable however but it very well could have happened. I can vouch for the fact that this happens frequently in the restaurant business. The salad soon became a hit and people came to the restaurant just to get the salad. In particular the Hollywood set loved Caesars

Some of Caesar's friends and family dispute this claim.

Paul Maggiora, a partner of the Cardini's, claimed to have tossed the first Caesar's salad in 1927 for American airmen from San Diego and called it "Aviator's Salad. Caesar's brother Alex had claimed to have developed the salad (he too allegedly called it "aviator's salad"). Livio Santini claimed he made the salad from a recipe of his mother, in the kitchen of Caesar's restaurant when he was 18 years old, in 1925, and that Caesar took the recipe from him.

The original name was the Aviator's Salad. Alex Cardini, my grandfather, was a pilot for the Italian Air Force during World War I before he moved to Tijuana to join my great-uncle Caesar. 

Remember, it was Prohibition, and Tijuana was where people went to party. Caesar's Place, my great-uncle's bar and restaurant, was very popular. After a long night of drinking and missing curfew, a group of Rockwell Field Air Force pilots woke up at Caesar's, and what Alex made for them for breakfast that morning is what we know today as Caesar Salad. That day he called it the Aviator's Salad in honor of his flying buddies, but as the salad gained popularity with visitors from Southern California it evolved into the Caesar Salad. “Let's go to Caesar's and have that salad …”

Subsequently, when Alex Cardini moved to Mexico City, where he opened three restaurants, the salad was listed on his menu as "the original Alex Cardini Caesar salad."

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Forget the Salad Spinner

Have you ever had a moment of pure genius? I did a few weeks ago. Or at least it certainly felt like it.

I have been regretting not owning a salad spinner because as everyone knows, a drier salad lasts longer. We eat a big salad with some meat topped on for dinner about once a week and invariably have some left over. I put the salad in an air-tight container and put it in the fridge where it just goes bad. And I have felt that a salad spinner would be the answer to all my problems, except for the fact that I just didn't want to have to buy one and store in my cabinets. I have enough one use kind of things in my kitchen and don't want or need more.

So, a couple of weeks ago, as I was making salad and yet again mulling over the two sides of my salad covered coin, an idea struck. I quickly ran over to my cabinet where my napkins are stored and stuffed on into the salad bowl, snapped the lid tight, and shook, shook, shook.

That little napkin absorbed all the excess moisture! I also kept the cut tomatoes separate from the rest of the salad. Between my fun little napkin trick and keeping the tomatoes in another container, my salad lasts all week now. Whoo hoo! While I'm sure someone else has previously thought of this, it felt like such a victory for me. I don't have to buy another kitchen gadget, plus we now have less waste and also salad more often through the week.


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Progressive International 4 Quart Collapsible Salad Spinner

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Our recent lunch and dinner classes have included leafy lettuce salads. It is a great way to highlight the fresh seasonal bounty here in Lancaster County.
What would we do without our salad spinners? Gone is the temptation to skip giving those leafy greens a good wash, especially when we’re squeezed for time.

All that you do is put the greens in the basket of the salad spinner and then run cold water over the greens.

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This particular model has a pump to spin the basket, so it is a one-handed task. It has a brake button to stop the spinning. It’s got a non-slip ring on the bottom of the outside bowl for keeping it steady as you spin. And the bowl can double as a serving bowl. One more great feature: when you’re finished using the spinner, push on the lock and the pumping mechanism drops down, making the whole unit easy to store.

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