He lived in San Diego but operated a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico (to attract a certain kind of American customer that might want to circumvent Prohibition).
The way it was told by his daughter Rosa was that a Fourth of July rush depleted the kitchen’s supplies, so Caesar took what he had left to make salads for the customers… instructing the chef to toss it at the table-side for dramatic flair
Browndog888 on
Here I was thinking Julius invented the Caesar Salad in the Roman days.
DavoTB on
Thank you, sir, for the many salads over the years!
AshleyAshley247 on
Wow, that’s a tasty piece of culinary history!
oSuJeff97 on
Heard he was friends with the inventor of the Cobb salad – Bob Cobb.
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He lived in San Diego but operated a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico (to attract a certain kind of American customer that might want to circumvent Prohibition).
The way it was told by his daughter Rosa was that a Fourth of July rush depleted the kitchen’s supplies, so Caesar took what he had left to make salads for the customers… instructing the chef to toss it at the table-side for dramatic flair
Here I was thinking Julius invented the Caesar Salad in the Roman days.
Thank you, sir, for the many salads over the years!
Wow, that’s a tasty piece of culinary history!
Heard he was friends with the inventor of the Cobb salad – Bob Cobb.