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Caesar salad (387 words) |
 | The Caesar salad is a traditional salad served in American restaurants, often prepared tableside. |
| It was invented in the 1920s (probably 1924) by Caesar Cardini[?], a restaurateur[?] and chef[?] in Tijuana, Mexico. |
| Cardini must have been inspired, because the whole is most definitely more than the sum of its parts. |
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| 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. |
| In 1948, Caesar and Rosa began to commercially bottle the dressing, though because "Caesar salad" was in the public domain--which suggests it was pretty well-known--they could trademark only "Original Caesar's" and "Cardini". |
| Caesar salad was in vogue through the summer and fall, and slot-machine hot dogs still prevailed in the larger cities" (pp. |
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