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A Waldorf salad is a salad
Salad

Salad is a mixture of cold or hot foods, usually including vegetables and/or fruits, often with a dressing, occasionally nuts or croutons, and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta, cheese, eggs, or whole grains....
 consisting of julienned
Julienning

Julienne is a food preparation in which state a food item is cut into long thin strips. Common items to be julienned are carrots for carrots Julienne or celery for C?l?ris Remoulade ....
 (fine sliced) apple
APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
 and celery
Celery

Apium graveolens is a plant species in the family Apiaceae commonly known as celery or celeriac depending on whether the petioles or roots are eaten....
, chopped walnut
Walnut

Walnuts are plants in the family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees, 10–40 meter s tall , with pinnate leaves 200?900 millimetres long , with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnut but not the hickory in the same family....
s, grapes, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing. It was first created around 1893 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City (the precursor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

File:Waldorf-Astoria 1904-1908b.jpgThe Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is a famously luxurious hotel in New York. It has been housed in two historic landmark buildings in New York City....
 which opened in 1931).

ough Oscar Tschirky
Oscar Tschirky

Oscar Tschirky was maitre d'hotel of Delmonico's Restaurant and subsequently the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York, United States. He was widely known as "Oscar of the Waldorf" and produced a large cookbook despite not being a chef....
, who was the maître d'hôtel, is usually given credit for creating the recipe, there are conflicting stories about who actually created the salad.






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Waldorf Salad
A Waldorf salad is a salad
Salad

Salad is a mixture of cold or hot foods, usually including vegetables and/or fruits, often with a dressing, occasionally nuts or croutons, and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta, cheese, eggs, or whole grains....
 consisting of julienned
Julienning

Julienne is a food preparation in which state a food item is cut into long thin strips. Common items to be julienned are carrots for carrots Julienne or celery for C?l?ris Remoulade ....
 (fine sliced) apple
APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
 and celery
Celery

Apium graveolens is a plant species in the family Apiaceae commonly known as celery or celeriac depending on whether the petioles or roots are eaten....
, chopped walnut
Walnut

Walnuts are plants in the family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees, 10–40 meter s tall , with pinnate leaves 200?900 millimetres long , with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnut but not the hickory in the same family....
s, grapes, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing. It was first created around 1893 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City (the precursor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

File:Waldorf-Astoria 1904-1908b.jpgThe Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is a famously luxurious hotel in New York. It has been housed in two historic landmark buildings in New York City....
 which opened in 1931).

Recipe creator

Although Oscar Tschirky
Oscar Tschirky

Oscar Tschirky was maitre d'hotel of Delmonico's Restaurant and subsequently the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York, United States. He was widely known as "Oscar of the Waldorf" and produced a large cookbook despite not being a chef....
, who was the maître d'hôtel, is usually given credit for creating the recipe, there are conflicting stories about who actually created the salad. Oscar Tschirky also claimed credit for several other dishes served at the Waldorf, including Eggs Benedict
Eggs Benedict

Eggs Benedict is a dish that consists of a half of an English muffin, topped with ham or bacon, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce....
. (An alternative theory is that it was created by the Waldorf Lunch System, an early 20th century lunchroom chain—starting in the 1920s, the company logo was an apple.) In 1896 Waldorf Salad appeared in "The Cook Book by 'Oscar of the Waldorf'". It is traditionally served on lettuce
Lettuce

Lettuce is a temperate annual plant or biennial plant of the daisy family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable. In many countries, it is typically eaten cold, raw, in salads, hamburgers, tacos, and in many other dishes....
. Dried fruit
Dried fruit

Dried fruitis fruit that has been drying , either naturally or through use of a machine, such as a food dehydrator. Raisins, prunes, and Date palm are examples of popular dried fruits....
 is often added — usually chopped dates or raisins.

Cultural references

"Waldorf Salad
Waldorf Salad (Fawlty Towers)

"Waldorf Salad" is the third episode of the second series of BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers....
" is the title of a 1979 episode of Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by the BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC Two in 1975. Although only twelve episodes were produced , the programme has had a lasting and powerful legacy....
 which concerns an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 guest's increasing frustration with Basil Fawlty
Basil Fawlty

Basil Fawlty is the major character in the United Kingdom sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese. The character is often thought of as an iconic British comedy character, and has been deemed unforgettable despite only a dozen half-hour episodes ever being made....
's incompetence, symbolised by Fawlty's continuing inability to produce the salad of the title: "I think we're just out of Waldorfs." He asks the question: "What is a Waldorf anyway, a walnut that's gone off?".

The song "You're the Top
You're the Top

"You're The Top" is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other....
" from the Cole Porter
Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
 musical Anything Goes
Anything Goes

Anything Goes is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
 contains the line: "You're the top, you're a Waldorf salad".

In the 1991 novel American Psycho
American Psycho

American Psycho is a psychological thriller and satirical novel by Bret Easton Ellis. The story is told in the first person narrative by fictitious serial killer and Manhattan businessman Patrick Bateman....
 by Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack , which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney....
, Waldorf salads are frequently mentioned and consumed. At a Christmas party thrown by protagonist Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman

Patrick Bateman is a fictional character, the antihero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and its American Psycho ....
's fiancé Evelyn Williams, Evelyn worries about how well the Waldorf salad is received by her guests.

The Three Stooges
Three Stooges

The Three Stooges was an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid?20th century best known for their numerous short subject films....
 created a television sitcom in 1949 (which never aired), and in the pilot episode, Jerks of All Trades, Shemp mentions a Waldorf salad as they were painting the walls with food.

"I'll Have The Waldorf Salad" (featuring Bonobo) is the title of the second track on Amon Tobin
Amon Tobin

Amon Adonai Santos de Ara?jo Tobin , better known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian people electronic musician, and Disc jockey. He is best known for his use of sampling ....
's 2003 EP Verbal Remixes & Collaborations
Verbal Remixes & Collaborations

Verbal Remixes & Collaborations was an Extended play released by Amon Tobin in 2003. It was comprised by featuring tracks from two previously released 12" EPs: Verbal and Collaborations....
.

In the 1999 Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks

Albert Brooks is an United States actor, writer, comedian and film director. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in Broadcast News ....
/Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone

Sharon Yvonne Stone is an United Statesn actress, film producer and former Model . She first acheived international recognition for her performance in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct....
 film, The Muse
The Muse

For other uses of the title see The Muse .The Muse, successor to the Memorial Times, began publishing in 1950 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, as an unnamed paper....
, down on his luck Hollywood writer Brooks is awoken early in the morning by his "muse" (Stone) to bring her a Waldorf Salad from Spago's at her Four Seasons Hotel room. When he arrives he is shadowed by a security guard, and after she claims disinterest in the salad now, he turns and runs into the barrel-chested guard, and ends up bathed in Waldorf Salad.

In the 2003 movie Pieces of April, April impresses a family who are letting her use their oven to cook her turkey, although she has never cooked before, by mentioning that she's making her family a Waldorf salad for Thanksgiving.

See also

  • Fruit salad
    Fruit salad

    Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, served either in their own juices or a syrup. In different forms fruit salad can be served as an appetizer, a side-salad, or a dessert....


External links

  • at Chabad.org
    Chabad.org

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