The iconic Caesar salad turns 100. Do you know its local origin story?

The 100th anniversary of the Caesar salad will be on July 4. Salad master, Efraín Montoya Gaxiola adding Parmesan cheese to the Caesar salad at Caesar’s Restaurant in Downtown on Monday, June 24, 2024 in Tijuana, Baja California. As legend goes, Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini was in his Tijuana restaurant on a particularly busy day when he whipped up a salad with ingredients he happened to have on hand.

Tijuana historian Fernando Escobedo de la Torre and businessman Armando Avakian Gámez are adding their own well-researched take to the lore with a new book being released in conjunction with the centennial. And they conclude that the original salad was created by Caesar Cardini on July 4, 1924, in Tijuana. Their book is based on testimony, historical archives and eight years of research, they said.

Around 1930 the salad was offered as the “Romaine Parmigian Dressing” for 50 cents, according to an original menu on display at Caesar’s Restaurant.That simplified origin story seems to have been pushed by Cardini’s family throughout the years, but has also been questioned. The story goes that Caesar’s brother, Alex Cardini, a chef and former pilot in the Italian Air Force during World War I, added anchovy paste to a crostini, and named it the Aviator’s Salad in honor of the pilots at Rockwell Field Air Base in San Diego. This version of the salad — which was also later called Alex’s Caesar salad — was created in 1927, according to Escobedo.

Escobedo and Avakian claim that the salad was created at Cardini’s former location, Café Alhambra, where he operated from 1922 to 1925. The restaurant was also located on Avenida Revolución for a time but was destroyed in a fire. He later opened Caesar’s Place on Second Avenue and moved to its current location downtown on Avenida Revolución.The salad is still prepared table-side at Caesar’s Restaurant, just as it was for Child.

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