Midnight, Hollywood, 1937. Robert Cobb, owner of the legendary Brown Derby, was peckish. So he and his pal Sid Grauman (of Chinese Theatre fame) grabbed leftovers from the restaurant’s fridge: salad greens, avocado, cheese, chicken breast, a hard-boiled egg, bacon. Grauman had recently been to the dentist and wasn’t chewing well, so they chopped everything into bite-sized pieces before tossing the salad with a vinaigr
