Caesar Cardini

Cesare Cardini ( born February 24, 1896 † November 3, 1956 ) was an Italian- Mexican restaurant and hotel owner and chef, the invention of the Caesar Salads attributed. After being in Tijuana restaurant business during Prohibition in the United States on the Mexican side of the border between the U.S. and Mexico, where many actors perverted from Hollywood, he moved in 1935 to Los Angeles and marketed there a salad dressing, which he had developed.

Life

Cesare Cardini was born in the region of Lake Maggiore. The number of his siblings is not known. Certain is that he emigrated with his two brothers and Alessandro Caudencio to North America. They worked in Mexico City in gastronomy. Probably with Alessandro, who later lived under the name of Alex Cardini in the U.S., Cesare Cardini opened a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico. This was from 1923 to 1972 in the possession of the Cardini family. The then seventeen- year-old Julia Child, which had a lasting influence American cuisine in the 1960s, was in 1925 with her family at this restaurant a guest and it is supposedly the only culinary experience of their youth, which remained their lasting memory. Cesare Cardini prepared then personally at their table Caesar Salad. However, Julia Childs biographer Joan Reardon does not rule out that the restaurant visit Julia Child so clearly the main reason was memorable because this restaurant, played in the Mariachibands and beer and cocktails were served, so much of the coined in the prohibitionist U.S. restaurants difference.

Cesare Cardini married Camille and had shared with her daughter, Rosa Maria Cardini (1928 - 2003), which her ​​father's salad dressing successfully marketed in later years. According to his daughter, who was interviewed this in the 1970s, Cesare Cardini created the salad on 4 July 1924 as more guests at this American holiday came into the restaurant, were as expected. However, there are serious doubts about this dating. Cardini was an excellent businessman and storytellers and was probably aware that a good story would help his dressing to sell. Cesare Cardini died on November 3, 1956 of a stroke. His daughter took over the company after Caesar Cardini Foods Inc., founded by him

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