The article celebrates the Caesar salad, reflecting on its comfort and versatility. The writer shares personal experiences of enjoying and sampling various recipes around the world, likening the creation of a comedy show to making the perfect Caesar salad through a blend of ingredients, both harmonious and challenging. It dispels the myth that the salad originated for Julius Caesar, clarifying that it was actually created by Caesar Cardini in Tijuana in 1924, during the Prohibition era, highlighting the dish’s historical context and cultural roots.
O, Caesar salad: lush bed of greens cloaked in piquant, alabaster folds of hopefully mayonnaise instead of raw egg, pepper, lemon, anchovies, capers, and maybe other stuff whipped into a froth.
The great Caesar salad is one of my all-time favourite meals. It makes me feel like a lady who lunches, which is all I ever wanted to be when I grew up.
Putting together an hour of comedy is a bit like making a good Caesar salad. You must combine some obvious things, some surprising things, and some unpleasant things.
According to legend, the recipe for the Caesar salad was developed for Julius Caesar himself. The legend, as they so often are, is wrong.
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