Editing Caesar salad (section)

{{short description|Green salad of romaine lettuce and croutons}}
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{{Infobox food
| name               = Caesar salad
| image              = Caesar salad (2).jpg
| place_of_origin    = <!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS FIELD WITHOUT DISCUSSING IT ON THE TALK PAGE FIRST -->[[Mexico]]<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS FIELD WITHOUT DISCUSSING IT ON THE TALK PAGE FIRST -->
| region             = <!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS FIELD WITHOUT DISCUSSING IT ON THE TALK PAGE FIRST -->[[Tijuana]], Baja California<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS FIELD WITHOUT DISCUSSING IT ON THE TALK PAGE FIRST -->
| creator            = [[Caesar Cardini]]
| year               = 1924
| course             = {{ubl|[[Hors d'oeuvre]]|[[Multicourse meal]]}}
| served             = Chilled or room temperature
| main_ingredient    = [[Romaine lettuce]], [[crouton]]s, [[Parmigiano-Reggiano|Parmesan cheese]], [[lemon juice]], [[olive oil]], [[Egg (food)|egg yolks]], [[Worcestershire sauce]], [[anchovy (food)|anchovies]], (optionally) [[Dijon mustard]], [[black pepper]]
| variations         = Multiple
}}

A '''Caesar salad''' (also spelled '''Cesar''', '''César''' and '''Cesare'''), also known as '''Caesar's salad''', is a [[Salad#Green salad|green salad]] of [[romaine lettuce]] and [[crouton]]s [[Salad dressing|dressed]] with lemon juice (or lime juice), olive oil, eggs, [[Worcestershire sauce]], anchovies, garlic, [[Dijon mustard]], [[Parmesan]] and black pepper.

The salad was created on July 4, 1924, by [[Caesar Cardini]] at [[Caesar's]] in [[Tijuana]], Mexico, when the kitchen was overwhelmed and short on ingredients. It was originally [[Gueridon service|prepared tableside]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=David |title=David Burke's New American Classics |last2=Choate |first2=Judith |date=2009 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-51943-6 |page=67 |chapter=Caesar salad |access-date=12 July 2016 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHPvtWR6TkkC&pg=PA67 |archive-date=7 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707002238/https://books.google.com/books?id=dHPvtWR6TkkC&pg=PA67 |url-status=live }}</ref> and it is still prepared tableside at the original venue.