"Crab Louie salad is so quintessential to the Pacific Northwest that it's part of our list of iconic foods from Washington state you need to try. A traditional Crab Louie salad, also known as a Crab Louis, was served with unique Dungeness crab meat, which thrived in the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest, along with lettuce, hard-boiled eggs, and pink Louis dressing. Modern adaptations are commonly found with the addition of cucumbers, tomatoes, and lemon wedges. Both Seattle and San Francisco are attributed to the origins of the famous salad, but despite its fame, the true origins are still up for debate."
"Furthering the confusion, in 1912, the Portland Council of Jewish Women published a "Neighborhood Cookbook" which included a recipe for Crab Louis, specifically with the famous pink dressing, as well as crab meat, hard-boiled eggs, and lettuce, however the recipe doesn't have a source for the salad, adding another city and layer of mystery to the salad's true origin. Yet another San Franciscan claim to the salad"
Crab Louie features Dungeness crab, lettuce, hard-boiled eggs, and a pink Louis dressing, with modern additions like cucumbers, tomatoes, and lemon wedges. Major West Coast cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Vancouver served crab on menus by the 1800s as commercial crab fishing expanded. Competing origin claims include a 1904 Olympic Club story in Seattle and a 1908 Poodle Dog claim in San Francisco, but each claim has problems or describes a different dressing. A 1912 Portland Council of Jewish Women cookbook printed a Crab Louis recipe with the pink dressing but listed no source, leaving the salad's true origin unresolved.
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