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Fourth of July: Caesar Would Have Turned In His Grave?
The origin of the salad is not so elusive as it is partisan. Three men all claimed credit for its invention (Caesar Cardini, Alejandro Cardini, and Livio Santini) and each has his band of devout believers. The story of the anonymous actress given in the previous comment appears to be a conflation of the stories attending the creation of the taco gobernador and the Rita Hayworth margarita. We can say a few things with a fair degree of certainty, however: the salad was not invented at Hotel Caesar, it most likely dates to 1927, and it did not involve coddled egg. The salad became popular at Caesar's Place, the restaurant on the ground floor of the Hotel Comercial at Avenida A (now Revolución) and Calle Segunda. It is doubtful that the Cardini brothers were in business as early as 1924; in any event, the famous Hotel Caesar came about in the early 1930s as a result of the brothers' success at their original location. The salad has been made traditionally with raw egg. Coddling became de rigueur about twenty years ago as a way of killing salmonella and other bacteria that might adhere to the outside of an egg's shell. One has always been able to eat better and more cheaply in Tijuana than in San Diego. The present state of our gastronomy is notable for a slight drop in value, a great increase in variety, and some shamelessly hyperbolic publicity. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/0…— July 7, 2012 11:06 a.m.