National Caesar Salad Day

July 4th is National Caesar Salad Day because this is the Birthday of the Caesar Salad!

It is unclear exactly how National Caesar Salad Day began. Many food holidays are started by companies who manufacture food products, or by organizations dedicated to their promotion. Most are not officially recognized holidays.

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How has Caesar Salad affected the production of Romaine Lettuce.

But for much of the 20th century, romaine wasn’t known at all to many Americans. That’s because of the overwhelming success of iceberg lettuce, which can remain reliably crunchy (though incredibly bland) despite days if not weeks of shipping. As late as the mid-1970s, iceberg lettuce accounted for more than 95 percent of all of the lettuce grown in this country.
Then along came the reborn Caesar salad. Invented in a Tijuana restaurant in the 1920s (which one is a subject of a bitter interfamilial dispute), for decades the Caesar kind of limped along in all of its garlicky glory as a California specialty.

Then, all of a sudden, in the late 1970s it was “discovered” by the fast-food industry, often topped with very untraditional grilled chicken, and there followed a couple of decades of extremely heady popularity.
From almost nothing, by the mid ’90s, more than 16,000 acres of romaine was being grown. By 2000 that had increased to more than 60,000 acres and today it stands at more than 80,000.

	Watch the whole episode of 'Samantha and the Caesar Salad"
The Long Long Trailer was a movie Featuring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez. Lucy's character tries to make a Caesar Salad while the trailer is swaying back and forth, very funny!		Order the Long Long Trailer
	A Card from Caesar's Restaurant