Caesar Salad in 1946??

[Gerald Cohen]

   Yes, please check on this. 1946 would predate by one year the
earliest attestation thus far spotted by Barry Popik (see second item
below).

---Gerald Cohen

At 8:09 PM -0500 2/14/02, James A. Landau wrote:
>At work today there was a Black History Month program on "Black Music in
>Cinema".  One of the film clips that was shown had a black singer doing a
>song in which the phrase "Caesar salad" occurred.
>
>If I read the credit correctly (it flashed by pretty quickly so I may easily
>be wrong), the singer was Nat King Cole, the clip was from "Breakfast in
>Hollywood", and the date was 1946.
>
>If anyone's interested, I can check with the man who put the program together.



>******
>From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject:      Romaine (Caesar?) Salad in Coronado, Calif.
>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:41:56 -0600
>
>  This continues ADS-L discussion of "Caesar salad."  Supposedly,
>Caesar Cardini came up with it on July 4th, 1924, but the earliest
>"Caesar salad" cite I have is 1947 (GOURMET magazine, published in
>Los Angeles).