Except the salad was named after its inventor Ceasar Cardini https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_salad
So the correct text should be “Having a salad named after someone named after you.”
I just found out the original recipe didn’t have anchovies in it. Some sick fuck came along and said to themselves I wonder if I can hide this fish paste in a salad
I have never seen anchovies in a Caesar salad. Is it a regional thing?
Edit: It’s in the dressing, right. My bad.
It’s normal in the US, Germany, and New Zealand. Elsewhere I can’t say. It is often removed from store bought dressings to make it vegetarian but is in any quality dressing. I would say it’s typical everywhere but can’t say for sure. Also, I was a chef in those places, it’s how it know.
tfw the salad was named for a hispanic chef but the roman emperor gets to steal the credit
also a dumb edit war
Considering Hispaniola was never a thing, and Caesar was a naturalized citizen of Mexico. You can just say Mexican chef
That’s certainly more accurate than “Hispanic chef” which is just entirely wrong, but I still think that’s not the best way to describe him. Do you have a source for his Mexican citizenship? I can’t find it anywhere.
All I can find is basically a residential history. Born 1896 in Baveno, Italy; moved around a lot in the 1910s (Italy --> Montreal --> back to Italy --> Sacramento --> San Diego). As he moved around California he was involved in the restaurant business and eventually established restaurants in Tijuana to get around Prohibition. So that must have been early 1920s, then he eventually moved back to California in 1936 and stayed there (occasionally moving cities) until his death in 1956.
I think “Italian chef” is certainly the least ambiguous way to describe him. “Italian immigrant chef in Tijuana” is a bit of a mouthful.
Edit: honestly it’s not even clear if he lived in Tijuana or still lived in San Diego and just worked in Tijuana (initially because of Prohibition). He got married in Santa Ana in 1924 (same year as the credited Caesar salad invention). His daughter was born in San Diego in 1928.
Actually the title was named after Caesar to mean emperor after his death. It was so influential that many languages use this word as well. Famous examples would be Tzar in Russian or Keiser in German.
Kaiser just rolls off the tongue better.
Cesarean section?
The term originates from ‘caedere’ (to kill), not from ‘Caesar’, but ‘Ceasar’ has the same origin.
