The Origin of Caesar Salad?

<a href="http://travel.independent.co.uk/americas/central/story.jsp?story=1560">Tijuana: the Big Salad</a>: &ldquo;You may recognise the Hotel del Coronado from the movie <em>Some Like it Hot</em>, which was filmed here in 1958 with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe&hellip;



&ldquo;Livio Santini, an Italian immigrant, was a cook at the Hotel del Coronado in the 1920s &mdash; soon after the future Edward VIII had met Mrs Simpson there. His Sicilian mother (Livio&rsquo;s, not Edward&rsquo;s) had one day found herself almost bereft of ingredients for supper &mdash; just a few leaves, a handful of anchovies, an egg and the condiments that no self-respecting Italian housewife would be without. She coerced them into a presentable, tasty combination.



&ldquo;Cut to Signor Santini, who had sought new opportunities in San Diego and was now seeking inspiration to keep customers from drifting south of the border where they could wash dinner down with something stronger than soda. To elaborate on his mother&rsquo;s invention, he introduced strips of char-grilled chicken, and replaced the coddled whole egg with a raw yolk. This increased both the colour spectrum and protein content of the dish. The name, it is said, celebrated the Italian roots of the dish and deflected attention from the fact that the fascist Benito Mussolini had just seized power in Rome.&rdquo;