A salad of diced raw apples, celery, and walnuts mixed with mayonnaise.
[After the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City.]
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Wal·dorf salad (wôl'dôrf') ![]() |
A salad of diced raw apples, celery, and walnuts mixed with mayonnaise.
[After the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City.]
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Apple, walnuts, and celery with mayonnaise; created by Swiss chef Oscar Tschirsky (‘Oscar of the Waldorf’) at the Waldorf Hotel, New York, about 1894.
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[WAWL-dorf] Created at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in the 1890s, the original version of this salad contained only apples, celery and mayonnaise. Chopped walnuts later became an integral part of the dish. Waldorf salad is usually served on top of a bed of lettuce.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
typically made of apples and celery with nuts or raisins and dressed with mayonnaise
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A Waldorf salad consists of julienned apple and celery, chopped walnuts, grapes, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing. The salad was first created around 1893 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City (the precursor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel which opened in 1931)[1].
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Although Oscar Tschirky, 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. (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. Dried fruit is often added — usually chopped dates or raisins.
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