You can stick a knife in that delicious myth.
Instead, credit romaine emperor Caesar Cardini, an immigrant restaurateur from Italy, according to food historian.
He lived in San Diego, California and operated restaurants there and just across the border in Tijuana, Mexico, with his brother Alex.
The salad’s inventor, however, is the source of an international dispute and, apparently, a civil war among the Cardini clan.
“To his dying day, Caesar said he invented it at his Caesar’s Place in Tijuana,” writes food historian Martin Lindsay on his website, ClassicSanDiego.com.
