[Sca-cooks] Caesar salad

[Johnna Holloway]

Cardini's Original Caesar Dressing can be ordered from

http://www.foodlocker.com/12610-6.html

The ingredients for the bottled dressing as listed on
http://www.shopnatural.com/html/719.htm
Soybean oil, water, egg yolk, salt, lemon juice concentrate, white wine 
and distilled vinegars, spices (including mustard seed), Parmesan cheese 
(part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), dehydrated garlic, 
dehydrated onion, olive oil, xanthan gum, molasses, corn syrup, caramel 
color, sugar, anchovies, tamarind, natural flavors.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>>  
>
> Okay. Mariani may be wrong, or at least have been imprecise, when he 
> wrote of "the six original ingredients", since while there were 
> ingredients (anchovies) added later, Caesar Cardini himself claimed 
> more than six ingredients (although, as mentioned, anchovy wasn't one 
> of them; he considered them redundant in combination with 
> Worcestershire sauce).
> In digging around for info on this, I ran across a claim that Cardini 
> used to use whole leaves from Romaine hearts, arranged in a sort of 
> wheel shape on a platter, stem end out, rib on the bottom, so the 
> salad could be eaten with the fingers; this is something I'd never 
> seen before. It seems like that might be an interesting hors d'ouvre 
> presentation, if you could make sure they were eaten quickly...
> Adamantius
>