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Definition: Caesar Salad |
Caesar SaladNoun1. Typically having fried croutons and dressing made with a raw egg. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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It was invented in the 1920s (probably 1924) by Caesar Cardini, a restaurateur and chef in Tijuana, Mexico. There are several stories about the specifics of its creation, none of which can be confirmed. One is that it was created for a group of Hollywood stars after a long weekend party. Another is that it was for the Prince of Wales, who was stuck in Tijuana due to weather. Both stories say that Caesar had to whip something up from what he had left in his kitchen, and the Caesar salad is what he came up with. If one of these stories is true, or close to the truth, Mr. Cardini must have been inspired, because the whole is most definitely more than the sum of its parts.
Nobody seems to know exactly when or how anchovies were added to the salad, but they were definitely not in the original recipe.
Many people are concerned about eating a Caesar salad today due to the potential risk of salmonella poisoning from the raw (actually, coddled) egg.
Unfortunately in recent years the popularity of the salad has caused very poor imitations, often using tasteless prepared and bottled sauces, to appear at many medium quality restaurants, particularly chain restaurants in the United States. It is recommended by some that one must carefully interrogate one's server to ensure an actual Caesar will appear at the table and not a poor imitation.
Below is a typical recipe, of which there are many variations.
The dressing can be made thinner by using less parmesan; the garlic
and anchovies are commonly scaled back for a milder taste.
Chunks of avocado and/or tomato may be added, and
strips of grilled chicken are also common.Recipe
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Caesar salad."
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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caesar salad | 318 |
caesar salad recipe | 147 |
caesar salad dressing | 131 |
caesar salad dressing recipe | 69 |
chicken caesar salad | 47 |
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| Language | Translations for "caesar salad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | aesarcay aladsay.(various references) | |
Thai | สลั"ชนิ"หนึ่งประกอบ"้วยผักกา"ขนมปังกรอบและอาจมีไข่ต้ม"้วยแล้วมีน้ำสลั"รา"ข้างบน. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-d-e-l-r-s-s" | |
-3 letters: calderas, scalades, scalares. | |
-4 letters: alcades, arcades, caesars, caldera, calesas, carless, classed, classer, craaled, cradles, declass, lascars, rascals, rassled, sacrals, scalade, scalare, scalars, scalers, scleras. | |
-5 letters: alcade, alders, arcade, arecas, cadres, caesar, calesa, caress, carles, carses, cedars, clades, clears, craals, cradle, crases, credal, decals, escars, lacers, laders, lascar, lasers, rascal, rassle, reclad, sacral, sacred, salads, scalar, scalds, scaled, scaler, scales, scared, scares, sclera, seracs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 65 73 61 72 53 61 6C 61 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01100101 01110011 01100001 01110010 00100000 01010011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a e s a r   S a l a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0065 0073 0061 0072 0053 0061 006C 0061 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37677185678425367786770 |
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