Caesar Salad

Is this an Italian salad? I say, but of course! The salad originated at the Hotel Caesar in Tijuana, a serious watering hole that served Italian food. Rumor has it that it was invented for a dignitary, perhaps a movie star. The rest of the story is murky at best. My mother was infatuated with this dish. Visiting Hotel Caesar in the early 1960s, she learned the recipe firsthand.

The Caesar of the story was an Italian immigrant from Piedmont. The story goes that his daughter was worki