A Waldorf salad is a salad consisting of apple, nuts (especially walnuts), celery, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing. It was first created in 1896 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York by Oscar Tschirky who was the maître d'hôtel. (An alternative theory is that it was created by the Waldorf Lunch System, an early 20th C. lunchroom chain- starting in the 1920's the company logo was an apple.) It is traditionally served on lettuce. Dried fruit is often added — usually chopped dates or raisins. Binomial name Malus domestica Borkh. ... Hazelnuts from the Common Hazel Chestnut // Botanical definition A nut in botany is a simple dry fruit with one seed (rarely two) in which the ovary wall becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity, and where the seed remains unattached or unfused with the ovary wall. ... Species See text The walnuts (genus Juglans) are plants in the walnut family Juglandaceae. ... Binomial name Apium graveolens L. Celery (Apium graveolens dulce) is a herbaceous biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the coasts of western and northern Europe, most commonly in ditches and saltmarshes. ... Mayonnaise is a thick, creamy sauce, usually of a white or light yellow color. ... 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Waldorf=Astoria hotel This article is about the hotel. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... The maître dhôtel, literally master of the hall, in a suitably staffed restaurant, is the person in charge of assigning customers to tables in the establishment, and dividing the dining area into areas of responsibility for the various waiters on duty. ... Binomial name Lactuca sativa L. Lettuce is a temperate annual or biennial plant most often grown as a leaf vegetable. ...

Cultural references

"Waldorf Salad" is the title of a 1979 episode of Fawlty Towers which concerns a bad-tempered American guest's increasing frustration with Basil Fawlty's incompetence, symbolised by Fawlty's continuing inability to produce the salad of the title: "We seem to be out of Waldorfs." He asks the question 'What is a Waldorf anyway, a walnut that's gone off?'. This page refers to the year 1979. ... Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. ... Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast in 1975, about a fictional hotel named Fawlty Towers in Torquay in Devon on the English Riviera. The hotel is owned and operated by the eccentric Basil Fawlty and his censorious wife Sybil, with maid Polly, porter...

The song "You're the Top" from the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes contains the line: "You're the top, you're a Waldorf salad". Youre the Top is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. ... Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Indiana. ... For the song by Guns N Roses, see Anything Goes (song) Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. ...

See also

• Fruit salad
• McDonald's Fruit and Walnut Salad

Fruit salad Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, served either in their own juices or a syrup. ... The fruit and walnut salad is a fruit dish sold by global fast-food chain McDonalds. ...

External link

• Kosher Waldorf salad recipe at chabad.org