Cardini Original Caesar Dressing 250 ml (Pack of 6)

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Cardini Original Caesar Dressing 250 ml (Pack of 6)

Cardini Original Caesar Dressing 250 ml (Pack of 6)

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Ninety-five years after someone in Tijuana tossed the first Caesar salad, the dish remains the most popular menu item at Caesar’s and a source of pride for locals. For the last seven years, Tijuana native Julio Alvarez has been working as a bartender at Caesar’s. “I’m the oldest one here,” he proudly told me. “[The salad is] very important… it is kind of like a monument for the people of Tijuana.” Skip the added sugars. Choosing a salad dressing with less than 2 grams of added sugar can help keep your total added sugar consumption within the recommended 10% of calories. In fact, the salad soon spread from Mexico and the Golden State across the globe. In the 1940s, Gourmet Magazine called the dish ‘the gastronomic highlight of the current moment’. And in 1953, it was even crowned as ‘the greatest recipe to originate in the Americas in 50 years’ by the International Society of Epicures in Paris. A business partner of Alex and Caesar’s at their Tijuana restaurants, Paul Maggiora, also claimed that he was the first to toss this salad. Still another version of the story credits a young employee at Caesar’s: Livio Santini. Also from Italy, Santini moved to Tijuana in 1924, landed a job cooking for Cardini and allegedly threw together the salad based on a dish his mother used to make. In many ways, Caesar’s recent history mirrors Tijuana’s. Once a glamorous haunt for Tinseltown stars and gangsters, the city spiralled into a decades-long wave of crime and violence before experiencing a recent cultural revival. In 2009, Caesar’s, which was no longer owned by the Cardinis and had deteriorated into a scruffy dive, closed. But in 2010, a local family – the Plascencias – reopened it after a total scrub-down.

Culinary Roots is a series from BBC Travel connecting to the rare and local foods woven into a place’s heritage. Less sodium. From sea salt to preservatives, Caesar dressing can get its flavor and stable shelf life from a number of forms of sodium. A two-tablespoon serving can add up to 15% of your daily value of sodium, but as little as 7% if a healthier dressing is used. More heart-healthy fats. Caesar dressing is notorious for its high saturated fat content from the egg yolks and parmesan cheese used. Most Caesar dressings get their creamy texture from emulsifying oil in egg yolk, contributing even more fat to this dressing. Depending on the type of oil used and amount, Caesar dressings can be high in heart-healthy fats like monounsaturated fat from avocado oil or extra virgin olive oil.Thankfully, not all Caesar dressings are made the same. We asked dietitians what their favorite Caesar dressings are to eat and recommend. After all, following a healthy diet doesn't mean giving up our favorite foods, just finding options that can easily fit our goals and still taste amazing! How we chose the healthiest Caesar salad dressings Despite the salad’s name and the famous story Rosa Cardini recounted of her father, it’s unclear who actually invented the dish. In her book, The Essential Cuisines of Mexico, Mexican food authority Diana Kennedy suggests the salad was actually created by Caesar’s brother, Alex. According to Kennedy, Alex started working in the restaurant business at age 10 in Italy, before becoming an ace pilot in World War One and then moving to Tijuana in 1926 to join his brother and open his own restaurant. “First known as Aviator’s Salad, it then became popularly known and copied as Caesar, but I shall call it as it should be called: Alex-Caesar Cardini Salad,” Kennedy wrote. Consider calories. While we all need energy (calories) to fuel our days, just two tablespoons of Caesar dressing can add almost 200 calories to your meal. If you like to use a lot of dressing, choosing a lower-calorie option is a good choice to limit extra unneeded calories.



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