Cobb salad
{{Short description|American garden salad}}
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| country = United States
| region = California
| creator = Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant
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| type = Salad
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| main_ingredient = Salad greens (iceberg lettuce, Romaine lettuce), tomatoes, bacon, chicken breast, hard-boiled eggs, blue cheese, red wine vinaigrette
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The Cobb salad is an American garden salad typically made with chopped salad greens (authentically romaine lettuce), tomato, bacon, chicken breast, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, chives, blue cheese (often Roquefort; some versions use other cheeses such as cheddar or Monterey Jack, or no cheese at all) and red wine vinaigrette.{{cite web | title=Weekend Recipe: Cobb Salad | publisher=KCET | date=June 23, 2017 | url=https://www.kcet.org/food/weekend-recipe-cobb-salad | access-date=February 15, 2018}}{{cite book | last=Kummer | first=C. | title=1001 Foods To Die For | publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-7407-7043-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ptZgNoobsyUC&pg=PA113 | access-date=February 15, 2018 | page=113}} The ingredients are laid out separately, often in neat rows. It is served as a main course.
Origin
Various stories recount how the salad was invented.{{cite book | author=((Editors of Cooking Light Magazine ))| title=Cooking Light Lighten Up America: Favorite American Foods Made Guilt-Free | publisher=Time Incorporated Books | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-8487-4488-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iN3qBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT146 | access-date=February 15, 2018 | page=pt146}} One says that it came about in 1937 at the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant, where it became a signature dish. It is named after the restaurant's owner, Robert Howard Cobb. Stories vary whether the salad was invented by Cobb or by his chef, Paul J. Posti. The legend is that Cobb had not eaten until near midnight, and so he mixed together leftovers he found in the kitchen, along with some bacon cooked by the line cook, and tossed it with their French dressing.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303823104576391630324571472|last=Monaghan|first=Gail|title=Screen Siren Cobb Salad|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=June 25, 2011|page=D5}}
Another version of the creation is that Robert Kreis, executive chef at the restaurant, created the salad in 1929 (the year the Brown Derby's Hollywood location opened) and named it in honor of Cobb.{{cite web |last=Schechter |first=Molly |title=Salad sensation celebrates 75 years |work=Sarasota Observer |date=May 23, 2012 |url=https://www.yourobserver.com/article/edibles-salad-sensation-celebrates-75-years|access-date=December 18, 2017}} The same source confirms that 1937 was the reported date of the version noted above, with Cobb making the salad.
See also
- List of foods named after people
- List of salads
- {{Portal-inline|Food}}
- Cuisine of California
- Chef salad