The salad was first created between 1893 and 1896 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City (the precursor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which came into being with the merger of the Waldorf with the adjacent Astoria Hotel, opened in 1897).
It was created at New York's Waldorf-astoria-hotel in the 1890s
Oscar Tschirky, who was the Waldorf's maître d'hôtel is widely credited with creating the recipe.
In 1896, Waldorf Salad appeared in The Cook Book by 'Oscar of the Waldorf'.
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Waldorf
The Waldorf salad was first created around 1893 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City which later became the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Waldorf salad is made with sweet apples, of which there are several varieties.
It might be a Waldorf Salad. That is a salad with lettuce, apples, toasted walnuts, celery, grapes or raisins, and topped with a mayonnaise dressing. It was first presented at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1893.
The best restaurant to get a waldorf salad would primarily be the hotel in which it was created, The Waldorf Hotel in New York by the maitre d'hotel Oscar Tschircky in 1893.
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A Waldorf Salad.
My memory is a bit shakey on this, but I remember reading about the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York (mid-town Manhatten) at some time, and there was a mention of the fact that the famous salad was originally made by one of their chefs. That is why they call it Waldorf salad. Conventionally credited to Oscar Tschirky, c.1893 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City.
I think you may mean Waldorf which is a salad made famous at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, The salad consists of Apples, celery, walnuts, raisins, and a delicate thin mayonaise with a hint of mustard. Some people use small cubes of cheese as well but that isn't a true Waldorf salad.
From the Waldorf Hotel, New York.
Fawlty Towers - 1975 Waldorf Salad 2-3 is rated/received certificates of: UK:PG (video rating) (2003)
The Waldorf salad, which was reportedly created by Oscar Tschirky, the maitre d'hotel at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue. A traditional Waldorf salad consists of carrots, celery, walnuts, diced apples and grapes, in a mayonnaise dressing, served over a bed of lettuce. Some recipes use raisins or other dried fruit, instead of grapes, and other nuts instead of (or in addition to) walnuts, and a yogurt dressing is sometimes used instead of mayonnaise. Some recipes add chicken or turkey as well.