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Salad and Salad Dressing
Recipes
From
Thom's Recipe File
Salads
I found
a lot of good information on salads at
"Salad-Recipe.net" and this salads history
information was at 
http://www.salad-recipe.net/Salad-history.htm
where you will find additional information
to include...In the last few decades the
salad has
become a full participant in
our meal-time activities, but it spent a
long, hard time reaching that acceptance.
Today one can walk into almost any
restaurant and expect to find at least a
small choice of salads big and hearty enough
to make a meal of, but it wasn't always so.
Once relegated to either an appetizer or a
side dish, it was a meal only for people who
where either watching their figure or
recovering from a medical problem. The salad
was considered effete at best and a dietary
chore at worst.
Today both health and
flavor conscious Americans make salad a regular part of
their diet. While nutritional education and evolving
attitudes have contributed to the vindication of the salad,
it was the persistence of salad makers and lovers that
really made the salad what it is today. So when you enjoy
your next salad, you can feel good that you're no only
eating healthy, you're participating in one of the great
culinary success stories.
Salad Dressings
The following is from
Linda Stradley at "What's Cooking America". There is much
more information on the website
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/ SaladHistory.htm
please take a look and check it our for yourself.
According to Linda
Stradley, a sauce for a salad is usually based on
vinaigrette, mayonnaise, or other emulsified product.
Salad dressings and
sauces have a long and colorful history, dating back to
ancient times. The Chinese have been using soy sauce for
5,000 years; the Babylonians used oil and vinegar for
dressing greens nearly 2,000 years ago; and the ever- popular
Worcestershire was derived from a sauce used since the days
of the Caesar. Indeed, early Romans preferred their grass
and herb salads dressed with salt. Egyptians favored a salad
dressed with oil, vinegar and Oriental spices. Mayonnaise is
said to have made its debut at a French Noblemans table
over 200 years ago. Salads were favorites in the great
courts of European Monarchs - Royal salad chefs often
combined as many as 35 ingredients in one enormous salad
bowl, including such exotic "greens" as rose petals,
marigolds, nasturtiums, and violets. Englands King Henry
IV's favorite salad was a tossed mixture of new potatoes
(boiled and diced), sardines and herb dressing. Mary, Queen
of Scots, preferred boiled celery root diced and tossed with
lettuce, creamy mustard dressing, truffles, chervil and
hard-cooked egg slices.
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Caesar Salad? |
According to the "Wikipedia.org" a typical Caesar
salad comprises romaine lettuce and croutons dressed
with Parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, egg,
Worcestershire sauce, and black pepper, originally prepared
tableside. Caesar Cardini, who ran restaurants in Tijuana,
Mexico, in the 1920s-1940s, is commonly credited as the
creator.
As a historical addendum, the salad recipe was created at
a place operated by Cardini on the ground floor of the
Hotel Comercial at the corner of 2nd Street and
Main. In 1929-1930, Cardini moved his restaurant to the
newly constructed Hotel Caesar on Main St., nowadays
Avenida Revoluciσn, near the corner of 5th St. The
Hotel Comercial is long-gone, but the historic
"Comercial" building still stands at the same location, and
the Hotel Caesar's continues to operate to this day.
The restaurant closed in 1993, but after a renovation in the
late 1990's, the bar in the hotel began preparing table-side
"ensalada Caesar per tradition" and claim to serve the
"original Caesar salad".
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