Cobb salad

The Cobb salad is an American garden salad typically made with chopped salad greens (authentically romaine lettuce),<ref name="1001 Foods 2007" /> tomato, bacon, chicken breast, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, chives, blue cheese (often Roquefort; some versions use other cheeses such as cheddar or Monterey Jack, or no cheese at all) and red wine vinaigrette.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="1001 Foods 2007">Template:Cite book</ref> The ingredients are laid out separately, often in neat rows. It is served as a main course.

Origin

Various stories recount how the salad was invented.<ref name="CL 2013">Template:Cite book</ref> One says that it came about in 1937 at the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant, where it became a signature dish.<ref name="CL 2013"/> It is named after the restaurant's owner, Robert Howard Cobb.<ref name="zeldes" /> Stories vary whether the salad was invented by Cobb or by his chef, Paul J. Posti. The legend is that Cobb had not eaten until near midnight, and so he mixed together leftovers he found in the kitchen, along with some bacon cooked by the line cook, and tossed it with their French dressing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Another version of the creation is that Robert Kreis, executive chef at the restaurant, created the salad in 1929 (the year the Brown Derby's Hollywood location opened) and named it in honor of Cobb.<ref name="Schecter 2012">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The same source confirms that 1937 was the reported date of the version noted above, with Cobb making the salad.<ref name="Schecter 2012"/>

See also

• List of foods named after people
• List of salads
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• Cuisine of California
• Chef salad