If you have any comments, corrections or further information, please contact me. This article is a work in progress, and as such, may be corrected and updated in the future. There are some lapses in details and time periods for which no evidence has yet been found. Not based on accepted mythology and long-held assumptions, but based on original and contemporaneous sources. This article serves an attempt to piece together the actual stories of their lives and restaurants. While there are a few published contemporary interviews with Caesar and Alex Cardini, little original research has been undertaken other than that of Terry Greenfield in 1994. Business owners placed ads the whole week before assuring Californians that Tijuana would indeed be ‘open for business’ as usual.)Ĭhef Julia Child wrote of her remembrances of visiting Caesar’s as a twelve-year-old and having the salad, she thought, in 1925-26. There were rumors that the Mexican government was going to shut down all gambling and most of the businesses that weekend for Mexico’s elections, but they made an exception for Tijuana. (The 4th of July was a hot Friday night - the beginning of a big party weekend. Tradition says Caesar invented the salad at his place in Tijuana on Independence Day weekend, 1924.
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