Caesar Salad

The Caesar salad is one of those great American inventions which actually comes from Tijuana in Mexico, although admittedly from a hotel that catered for gringos rather than local peons. It was popularized in Chasens restaurant in New York, and now can be found across the States in all sorts of nasty and synthetic variations on the theme: bought packets of industrially produced garlic croutons, for example, which give off a halitotic whiff when opened; jars of instan