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The Waldorf salad was invented at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in 1893.

Wednesday seems right, to me, for an original Waldorf salad, with walnuts for heft and protein.

The simplicity of the original Waldorf salad has encouraged improvisation, almost since the dish was introduced.

The strawberry is the alimentary equivalent of Jimmy Fallon: sweet, all-American, and great in a Waldorf salad.

The Waldorf Salad soon became a beloved Americana staple, inspiring endless homemade variations and featuring regularly in cookbooks.

The set menu, priced at $32, began with a delicious Waldorf salad, a phrase I've never used before.

An earlier version of this article and an accompanying picture caption misstated the cut of apple in the original Waldorf salad.

Over a lunch of Waldorf salad (New Yorker) and tomato finger sandwiches (Southern belle), Anne reveals that Scott had suggested the makeover.

" It provides a sense of this novel's offbeat comedy to print Bateman's response to this: "'It was the Waldorf salad, Evelyn,' I say, teeth clenched.

Amateur chefs and restaurateurs have taken liberties with the Waldorf Salad for the past century-plus, adding unexpected ingredients like marshmallows, fried chicken, and blue cheese.

Its enormous four-sided brass bar turned out highballs for clamoring crowds, while its kitchens spawned such culinary inventions as the Waldorf salad and eggs Benedict.

The Waldorf salad, bound with light cream, featured tart apple slices and a trove of walnuts, but the inclusion of hearts of palm was a questionable call.

In assembling the dish, the sous-chef, Ben Truesdell, tore a page from the Waldorf salad, with apples and walnuts — but then he went his own way.

The menu emphasizes the diner food that clubgoers of the era would seek after hours, like disco fries with melted cheese, Waldorf salad, smoked salmon on a bagel and rich desserts.

" Mr. Tschirky wasn't a chef, but he is nevertheless credited with creating the Waldorf salad, having published the recipe in his 1896 cookbook, "The Cook Book, by 'Oscar' of the Waldorf.

Use the rest of your allotted kitchen time to spin up a Waldorf salad, and see what you make of Mike Birbiglia's gentle and hilarious "Thank God for Jokes," on Netflix.

Includes/not limited to: chicken salad, egg salad, ham salad, Waldorf salad, macaroni salad, various church salads that often include raisins and carrots and nuts and I'm getting very hungry right now.

Take the Waldorf salad, that strangely tame confection of grapes, apples, mayonnaise and walnuts in a lettuce cup, invented to mark the opening of the hotel the salad was named for in the 1890s.

ROY WOHLARS, who worked at Bouchon Bakery, is now the executive chef at the Vnyl in the East Village, where his menu, featuring dishes like chicken Kiev and Waldorf salad, channels earlier dining styles.

Yet the Waldorf salad, which is currently served at two of its three restaurants and on the room-service menu, lives on — in cookbooks, at diners and even at restaurants known for ambitious cooking.

It is a verdant platter filled with slivered (albeit not julienned) vegetables tossed in a lemon, pomegranate, molasses, and sumac dressing, that winks at — and then totally ignores — the classic Waldorf Salad that it sardonically references.

Owned by Gerardo Pulega and Edelmira Ibarra-Pulega, it offers a welcoming air and homey cuisine that, except for an outlier Waldorf salad and an entree of orange-glazed salmon filet with couscous, honors the motherland.

It has its own memorable details, about everything from how long it takes for a family of 30003 to eat a big bowl of Waldorf salad to how young boys react when they hear a rumor that a TV star has accidentally flashed a nipple on a live show.

At Brooklyn's Gertie, an elevated version of a classic diner that opened in Williamsburg in February, there are only one or two servers; during daytime table-service, patrons must visit the open kitchen when they want to order a Waldorf salad or cauliflower melt, navigating their way among the interconnected tables, which they choose themselves.

They wanted to see for themselves what had made the Waldorf so famous for so long: the corridors where presidents, princes and princesses roamed; the restaurants that gave the world eggs Benedict, veal Oscar, Waldorf salad and Thousand Island dressing; the two-ton clock tower in the lobby topped by a little Statue of Liberty; and Cole Porter's Steinway piano.

Designed by Henry Look of San Francisco, the restaurant has four "distinctly different" rooms, including one which represents an old Japanese farmhouse, and the Kinagu Room, resembling a Japanese temple. Guests have the option to reserve private orthodox tatami rooms. The classic Waldorf Salad Oscar's Brasserie, overlooking Lexington Avenue in what was once a Savarin restaurant, is designed by Adam Tihany. The restaurant takes its name from Oscar Tschirky (Oscar of the Waldorf) and serves traditional American cuisine, with many dishes based upon his cookbook which have gained world renown, including the Waldorf salad, Eggs Benedict, Thousand Island dressing, and Veal Oscar.

Waldorf pudding is a dessert originating from the early 20th century with two different published recipes.Recipes for Waldorf pudding There is no known connection between Waldorf pudding and the Waldorf Hotel in New York City, which is credited with creating the Waldorf salad.

A Waldorf salad is a fruit and nut salad generally made of fresh apples, celery, walnuts, and grapes, dressed in mayonnaise, and traditionally served on a bed of lettuce as an appetizer or a light meal. The apples, celery, and grapes can all be green, which harmonizes the color palette of the dish.

Other ingredients such as chicken, turkey, and dried fruit (e.g. dates or raisins) are sometimes added. Updated versions of the salad sometimes change the dressing to a seasoned mayonnaise (see also: dressings based on mayonnaise) or a yogurt dressing. Modern Waldorf salad may also include the zest of oranges and/or lemons.

Both had their premieres on BBC2. When originally transmitted, the individual episodes had no on-screen titles. The ones in common currency were first used for the VHS release of the series in the 1980s. There were working titles, such as "USA" for "Waldorf Salad", "Death" for "The Kipper and the Corpse" and "Rat" for "Basil the Rat", which have been printed in some programme guides.

The dish is featured prominently in an eponymous episode of the sitcom Fawlty Towers on the BBC. It is also mentioned at the end of the 1987 film House of Games; and within Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, season 1, episode 11, where it is referred to as “trailer trash food”. In season 2, Episode 10 of Twin Peaks, a Waldorf salad is served at a large gathering.

Robbins is also mentioned by name by Basil Fawlty in the Fawlty Towers episode "Waldorf Salad"; he refers to Robbins' work as 'transatlantic tripe.' The band Squeeze mentions "a Harold Robbins paperback" in their song "Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)". Since his death, several new books have been published, written by ghostwriters and based on Robbins's own notes and unfinished stories. In several of these books, Junius Podrug has been credited as co-writer.

In "Waldorf Salad", meanwhile, she strikes Basil across the face after he refuses to surrender the titular dish to a guest. She also slapped him in "The Anniversary", after she believed he had again forgotten their anniversary. She also implies that the last time he forgot, she gave him a severe beating. She is characterised by a shrill conversational tone and laugh, which her husband compares to 'someone machine-gunning a seal'.

He is credited with popularizing Thousand Island dressing at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he instructed the maître d', Oscar Tschirky, to include it on the menu. The hotel introduced other popular food items, such as Waldorf Salad. Boldt also owned the Waldorf Astoria Segar Company, which imported fine Cuban cigars and was located at the hotel. He built Boldt Castle on an island in the Thousand Islands area of New York State.

Andrew Bruce Boa (10 July 1930 - 17 April 2004) was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token American in British films and television, usually playing military types. Boa's most recognizable film role is in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as General Rieekan. On television, his most notable role is probably as the brash and rude American guest, Mr. Harry Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.

Waldorf salad is named for the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, where it was first created for a charity ball given in honor of the St. Mary's Hospital for Children on March 14, 1896. The Waldorf-Astoria's maître d'hôtel, Oscar Tschirky, developed or inspired many of the hotel's signature dishes and is widely credited with creating the salad recipe. In 1896, the salad appeared in The Cook Book by "Oscar of the Waldorf". The original recipe was just apples, celery, and mayonnaise.

The Waldorf salad—a salad made with apples, walnuts, celery, grapes, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing—was first created in 1896 at the Waldorf by Oscar. The original recipe, however did not contain nuts, but they had been added by the time the recipe appeared in The Rector Cook Book in 1928. Tschirky was also noted for his "Oscar's Sauce", which became so popular that it was sold at the hotel. Another of the hotel's specialties was red velvet cake, which became one of its most popular desserts.

In "The Kipper and the Corpse", she does little to help Basil, Manuel and Polly with the disposal of Mr. Leeman's body, prompting Basil to direct all the complaints to her. He does the same trick in "Waldorf Salad". Basil is utterly terrified of Sybil, describing her to Irish builder O'Reilly in "The Builders" as having the ability to "kill a man at ten paces with one blow of her tongue." Sybil is the strong figure in the marriage, as Basil is completely incapable of handling even the simplest of tasks.

A dessert called Waldorf pudding was served to first class passengers on the RMS Titanic on the April 14, 1912. The exact recipe for this dessert remains unknown and it may have been specific to White Star Line. Several speculated recipes using apples, walnuts, and raisins (which are the key ingredients of Waldorf salad) exist but there is no evidence that any of these ingredients were used in the Waldorf pudding served on the Titanic. The chefs at the Waldorf Hotel had never heard of Waldorf pudding around the time of the sinking of the Titanic.

At age 12, Coleman got her professional start as a keyboardist in the bubblegum pop band Waldorf Salad. The band, which also featured her siblings and Jonathan Melvoin, was signed to A&M; records in 1973. In 1975, Coleman played a small role as a high school pianist in the Linda Blair made-for-TV film Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. Coleman was 19 years of age when one of her good friends, Niki Yoergler, who was working as a secretary for Prince's personal manager, Steve Fargnoli, brought her to the attention of Prince.

It was designed specifically to cater to the needs of socially prominent "wealthy upper crust" of New York and distinguished foreign visitors to the city. It was the first hotel to offer electricity and private bathrooms throughout. The Waldorf gained world renown for its fundraising dinners and balls, as did its celebrity maître d'hôtel, Oscar Tschirky, known as "Oscar of the Waldorf". Tschirky authored The Cookbook by Oscar of The Waldorf (1896), a 900-page book featuring all of the recipes of the day, including his own, such as Waldorf salad, Eggs Benedict and Thousand Island dressing, which remain popular worldwide today.

Fruit salad with kiwifruit, strawberries, blueberries, pineapples, bananas, and orangesA fruit salad being prepared with miniature marshmallows and chopped nuts, mixed with a syrupy dressing A bowl of fruit saladFruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes served in a liquid, either their own juices or a syrup. In different forms, fruit salad can be served as an appetizer, a side salad, or a dessert. When served as an appetizer or dessert, a fruit salad is sometimes known as a fruit cocktail (often connoting a canned product), or fruit cup (when served in a small container). There are many types of fruit salad, ranging from the basic (no nuts, marshmallows, or dressing) to the moderately sweet (Waldorf salad) to the sweet (ambrosia salad).

Claire Nielson (née Isbister; born 8 April 1937) is a Scottish actress, primarily known for her television roles. On television, she played the wife of the belligerent American guest, Mr. Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of Fawlty Towers, appeared as Jean 'Porridge' Carter, Geoffrey Stock's secretary, in the popular 1960s crime series Ghost Squad and played the wife of Rikki Fulton's character in many sketches of the Scottish Hogmanay show Scotch and Wry during the 1970s until 1999. Other TV credits include Upstairs, Downstairs, Monarch of the Glen, The Brothers, The Two Ronnies, Take The High Road, Z-Cars and Taggart. She also appeared as Barbara Grant in the 1973 film version of Kidnapped, opposite Michael Caine and Trevor Howard.

He authored The Cookbook by Oscar of The Waldorf (1896), a 900-page book featuring all of the recipes of the day, including his own, such as Waldorf salad, Eggs Benedict and Thousand Island dressing, which remain popular worldwide today. James Remington McCarthy wrote in his book Peacock Alley that Oscar gained renown among the general public as an artist who "composed sonatas in soups, symphonies in salads, minuets in sauces, lyrics in entrees". In 1902 Tschirky published Serving a Course Dinner by Oscar of the Waldorf–Astoria, a booklet which explains the intricacies of being a caterer to the American and international elite. Tschirky continued to work for the Waldorf Astoria after the original hotel was demolished until his retirement in 1943.

Hotel Astoria and statue of Tsar Nicholas I in Saint Petersburg, Russia Boutique hotels are typically hotels with a unique environment or intimate setting. Some hotels have gained their renown through tradition, by hosting significant events or persons, such as Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany, which derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai is one of India's most famous and historic hotels because of its association with the Indian independence movement. Some establishments have given name to a particular meal or beverage, as is the case with the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, United States where the Waldorf Salad was first created or the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria, home of the Sachertorte.

Tschirky had arrived in the United States from Switzerland 10 years prior to applying for the position at the new Waldorf, and over the years grew to possess a great knowledge of cuisine. He authored The Cookbook by Oscar of the Waldorf (1896), a 900-page book featuring all of the popular recipes of the day, including his own, for which he garnered great acclaim, such as Waldorf salad, eggs Benedict, and Thousand Island dressing, which remain popular worldwide today. James Remington McCarthy wrote in his book Peacock Alley that Oscar gained renown among the general public as an artist who "composed sonatas in soups, symphonies in salads, minuets in sauces, lyrics in entrees". In 1902, Tschirky published Serving a Course Dinner by Oscar of the Waldorf-Astoria, a booklet that explains the intricacies of being a caterer to the American and international elite.

During the 1930s, gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel owned an apartment at the Waldorf, and Frank Costello was said to have got his haircut and nails done in the Barber's Shop at the Waldorf. Around the time of World War I, inventor Nikola Tesla lived in the earlier Waldorf-Astoria. In 1955, Marilyn Monroe and her husband, Arthur Miller stayed at the hotel for several months, but due to costs of trying to finance her production company "Marilyn Monroe Productions", only being paid $1,500 a week for her role in The Seven Year Itch and being suspended from 20th Century Fox for walking out on Fox after creative differences, living at the hotel became too costly and Monroe had to move into a different hotel in New York City. Around the same time that Monroe lived in the hotel, Cole Porter and his wife Linda Lee Thomas had an apartment in the Waldorf Towers, where Thomas died in 1954. Porter's 1934 song "You're the Top", contains the lyric, "You're the top, you're a Waldorf salad".

Many of the more complicated dishes with rich ingredients like Lobster Newberg, Waldorf salad, vichyssoise, eggs benedict, and the New York strip steak were born out of a need to entertain and impress the well to do in expensive bygone restaurants like Delmonico's and still standing establishments like the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and today that tradition remains alive as some of the most expensive and exclusive restaurants in the country are found in this region. New York-style pizzaSince their formative years, New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Baltimore have welcomed immigrants of every kind to their shores, and all four have been an important gateway through which new citizens to the general United States arrive. Traditionally natives have eaten cheek to jowl with newcomers for centuries as the newcomers would open new restaurants and small businesses and all the different groups would interact. Even in colonial days this region was a very diverse mosaic of peoples, as settlers from Switzerland, Wales, England, Ulster, Wallonia, Holland, Gelderland, the British Channel Islands, and Sweden sought their fortune in this region.

Its restaurants compete fiercely for good reviews in the Food and Dining section of The New York Times, online guides, and Zagat's, the last of which is widely considered the premier American dining guide, published yearly and headquartered in New York. New York–style cheesecake with strawberries. Other variations include blueberry or raspberry sauce. Many of the more complicated dishes with rich ingredients like Lobster Newberg, waldorf salad, vichyssoise, eggs benedict, and the New York strip steak were born out of a need to entertain and impress the well to do in expensive bygone restaurants like Delmonico's and still standing establishments like the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an "unripened cheese" that is heavier and creamier; other dairymen came up with similar creations independently. Since the first reference to an alcoholic mixed drink called a cocktail comes from New York State in 1803, it is thus not a surprise that there have been many cocktails invented in New York and the surrounding environs.

The Waldorf salad was invented at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in 1893. from The New York Times
Wednesday seems right, to me, for an original Waldorf salad, with walnuts for heft and protein. from The New York Times
The simplicity of the original Waldorf salad has encouraged improvisation, almost since the dish was introduced. from The New York Times
The strawberry is the alimentary equivalent of Jimmy Fallon: sweet, all-American, and great in a Waldorf salad. from Refinery 29
The Waldorf Salad soon became a beloved Americana staple, inspiring endless homemade variations and featuring regularly in cookbooks. from Hyperallergic
The set menu, priced at $32, began with a delicious Waldorf salad, a phrase I've never used before. from The New York Times
An earlier version of this article and an accompanying picture caption misstated the cut of apple in the original Waldorf salad. from The New York Times
Over a lunch of Waldorf salad (New Yorker) and tomato finger sandwiches (Southern belle), Anne reveals that Scott had suggested the makeover. from Refinery 29
" It provides a sense of this novel's offbeat comedy to print Bateman's response to this: "'It was the Waldorf salad, Evelyn,' I say, teeth clenched. from The New York Times
Amateur chefs and restaurateurs have taken liberties with the Waldorf Salad for the past century-plus, adding unexpected ingredients like marshmallows, fried chicken, and blue cheese. from Hyperallergic
Its enormous four-sided brass bar turned out highballs for clamoring crowds, while its kitchens spawned such culinary inventions as the Waldorf salad and eggs Benedict. from The New York Times
The Waldorf salad, bound with light cream, featured tart apple slices and a trove of walnuts, but the inclusion of hearts of palm was a questionable call. from The New York Times
In assembling the dish, the sous-chef, Ben Truesdell, tore a page from the Waldorf salad, with apples and walnuts — but then he went his own way. from The New York Times
The menu emphasizes the diner food that clubgoers of the era would seek after hours, like disco fries with melted cheese, Waldorf salad, smoked salmon on a bagel and rich desserts. from The New York Times
" Mr. Tschirky wasn't a chef, but he is nevertheless credited with creating the Waldorf salad, having published the recipe in his 1896 cookbook, "The Cook Book, by 'Oscar' of the Waldorf. from The New York Times
Use the rest of your allotted kitchen time to spin up a Waldorf salad, and see what you make of Mike Birbiglia's gentle and hilarious "Thank God for Jokes," on Netflix. from The New York Times
Includes/not limited to: chicken salad, egg salad, ham salad, Waldorf salad, macaroni salad, various church salads that often include raisins and carrots and nuts and I'm getting very hungry right now. from CNN
Take the Waldorf salad, that strangely tame confection of grapes, apples, mayonnaise and walnuts in a lettuce cup, invented to mark the opening of the hotel the salad was named for in the 1890s. from The New York Times
ROY WOHLARS, who worked at Bouchon Bakery, is now the executive chef at the Vnyl in the East Village, where his menu, featuring dishes like chicken Kiev and Waldorf salad, channels earlier dining styles. from The New York Times
Yet the Waldorf salad, which is currently served at two of its three restaurants and on the room-service menu, lives on — in cookbooks, at diners and even at restaurants known for ambitious cooking. from The New York Times
It is a verdant platter filled with slivered (albeit not julienned) vegetables tossed in a lemon, pomegranate, molasses, and sumac dressing, that winks at — and then totally ignores — the classic Waldorf Salad that it sardonically references. from Hyperallergic
Owned by Gerardo Pulega and Edelmira Ibarra-Pulega, it offers a welcoming air and homey cuisine that, except for an outlier Waldorf salad and an entree of orange-glazed salmon filet with couscous, honors the motherland. from The New York Times
It has its own memorable details, about everything from how long it takes for a family of 30003 to eat a big bowl of Waldorf salad to how young boys react when they hear a rumor that a TV star has accidentally flashed a nipple on a live show. from The Verge
At Brooklyn's Gertie, an elevated version of a classic diner that opened in Williamsburg in February, there are only one or two servers; during daytime table-service, patrons must visit the open kitchen when they want to order a Waldorf salad or cauliflower melt, navigating their way among the interconnected tables, which they choose themselves. from The New York Times
They wanted to see for themselves what had made the Waldorf so famous for so long: the corridors where presidents, princes and princesses roamed; the restaurants that gave the world eggs Benedict, veal Oscar, Waldorf salad and Thousand Island dressing; the two-ton clock tower in the lobby topped by a little Statue of Liberty; and Cole Porter's Steinway piano. from The New York Times
Designed by Henry Look of San Francisco, the restaurant has four "distinctly different" rooms, including one which represents an old Japanese farmhouse, and the Kinagu Room, resembling a Japanese temple. Guests have the option to reserve private orthodox tatami rooms. The classic Waldorf Salad Oscar's Brasserie, overlooking Lexington Avenue in what was once a Savarin restaurant, is designed by Adam Tihany. The restaurant takes its name from Oscar Tschirky (Oscar of the Waldorf) and serves traditional American cuisine, with many dishes based upon his cookbook which have gained world renown, including the Waldorf salad, Eggs Benedict, Thousand Island dressing, and Veal Oscar.
Waldorf pudding is a dessert originating from the early 20th century with two different published recipes.Recipes for Waldorf pudding There is no known connection between Waldorf pudding and the Waldorf Hotel in New York City, which is credited with creating the Waldorf salad.
A Waldorf salad is a fruit and nut salad generally made of fresh apples, celery, walnuts, and grapes, dressed in mayonnaise, and traditionally served on a bed of lettuce as an appetizer or a light meal. The apples, celery, and grapes can all be green, which harmonizes the color palette of the dish.
Other ingredients such as chicken, turkey, and dried fruit (e.g. dates or raisins) are sometimes added. Updated versions of the salad sometimes change the dressing to a seasoned mayonnaise (see also: dressings based on mayonnaise) or a yogurt dressing. Modern Waldorf salad may also include the zest of oranges and/or lemons.
Both had their premieres on BBC2. When originally transmitted, the individual episodes had no on-screen titles. The ones in common currency were first used for the VHS release of the series in the 1980s. There were working titles, such as "USA" for "Waldorf Salad", "Death" for "The Kipper and the Corpse" and "Rat" for "Basil the Rat", which have been printed in some programme guides.
The dish is featured prominently in an eponymous episode of the sitcom Fawlty Towers on the BBC. It is also mentioned at the end of the 1987 film House of Games; and within Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, season 1, episode 11, where it is referred to as “trailer trash food”. In season 2, Episode 10 of Twin Peaks, a Waldorf salad is served at a large gathering.
Robbins is also mentioned by name by Basil Fawlty in the Fawlty Towers episode "Waldorf Salad"; he refers to Robbins' work as 'transatlantic tripe.' The band Squeeze mentions "a Harold Robbins paperback" in their song "Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)". Since his death, several new books have been published, written by ghostwriters and based on Robbins's own notes and unfinished stories. In several of these books, Junius Podrug has been credited as co-writer.
In "Waldorf Salad", meanwhile, she strikes Basil across the face after he refuses to surrender the titular dish to a guest. She also slapped him in "The Anniversary", after she believed he had again forgotten their anniversary. She also implies that the last time he forgot, she gave him a severe beating. She is characterised by a shrill conversational tone and laugh, which her husband compares to 'someone machine-gunning a seal'.
He is credited with popularizing Thousand Island dressing at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he instructed the maître d', Oscar Tschirky, to include it on the menu. The hotel introduced other popular food items, such as Waldorf Salad. Boldt also owned the Waldorf Astoria Segar Company, which imported fine Cuban cigars and was located at the hotel. He built Boldt Castle on an island in the Thousand Islands area of New York State.
Andrew Bruce Boa (10 July 1930 - 17 April 2004) was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token American in British films and television, usually playing military types. Boa's most recognizable film role is in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as General Rieekan. On television, his most notable role is probably as the brash and rude American guest, Mr. Harry Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.
Waldorf salad is named for the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, where it was first created for a charity ball given in honor of the St. Mary's Hospital for Children on March 14, 1896. The Waldorf-Astoria's maître d'hôtel, Oscar Tschirky, developed or inspired many of the hotel's signature dishes and is widely credited with creating the salad recipe. In 1896, the salad appeared in The Cook Book by "Oscar of the Waldorf". The original recipe was just apples, celery, and mayonnaise.
The Waldorf salad—a salad made with apples, walnuts, celery, grapes, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing—was first created in 1896 at the Waldorf by Oscar. The original recipe, however did not contain nuts, but they had been added by the time the recipe appeared in The Rector Cook Book in 1928. Tschirky was also noted for his "Oscar's Sauce", which became so popular that it was sold at the hotel. Another of the hotel's specialties was red velvet cake, which became one of its most popular desserts.
In "The Kipper and the Corpse", she does little to help Basil, Manuel and Polly with the disposal of Mr. Leeman's body, prompting Basil to direct all the complaints to her. He does the same trick in "Waldorf Salad". Basil is utterly terrified of Sybil, describing her to Irish builder O'Reilly in "The Builders" as having the ability to "kill a man at ten paces with one blow of her tongue." Sybil is the strong figure in the marriage, as Basil is completely incapable of handling even the simplest of tasks.
A dessert called Waldorf pudding was served to first class passengers on the RMS Titanic on the April 14, 1912. The exact recipe for this dessert remains unknown and it may have been specific to White Star Line. Several speculated recipes using apples, walnuts, and raisins (which are the key ingredients of Waldorf salad) exist but there is no evidence that any of these ingredients were used in the Waldorf pudding served on the Titanic. The chefs at the Waldorf Hotel had never heard of Waldorf pudding around the time of the sinking of the Titanic.
At age 12, Coleman got her professional start as a keyboardist in the bubblegum pop band Waldorf Salad. The band, which also featured her siblings and Jonathan Melvoin, was signed to A&M; records in 1973. In 1975, Coleman played a small role as a high school pianist in the Linda Blair made-for-TV film Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. Coleman was 19 years of age when one of her good friends, Niki Yoergler, who was working as a secretary for Prince's personal manager, Steve Fargnoli, brought her to the attention of Prince.
It was designed specifically to cater to the needs of socially prominent "wealthy upper crust" of New York and distinguished foreign visitors to the city. It was the first hotel to offer electricity and private bathrooms throughout. The Waldorf gained world renown for its fundraising dinners and balls, as did its celebrity maître d'hôtel, Oscar Tschirky, known as "Oscar of the Waldorf". Tschirky authored The Cookbook by Oscar of The Waldorf (1896), a 900-page book featuring all of the recipes of the day, including his own, such as Waldorf salad, Eggs Benedict and Thousand Island dressing, which remain popular worldwide today.
Fruit salad with kiwifruit, strawberries, blueberries, pineapples, bananas, and orangesA fruit salad being prepared with miniature marshmallows and chopped nuts, mixed with a syrupy dressing A bowl of fruit saladFruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes served in a liquid, either their own juices or a syrup. In different forms, fruit salad can be served as an appetizer, a side salad, or a dessert. When served as an appetizer or dessert, a fruit salad is sometimes known as a fruit cocktail (often connoting a canned product), or fruit cup (when served in a small container). There are many types of fruit salad, ranging from the basic (no nuts, marshmallows, or dressing) to the moderately sweet (Waldorf salad) to the sweet (ambrosia salad).
Claire Nielson (née Isbister; born 8 April 1937) is a Scottish actress, primarily known for her television roles. On television, she played the wife of the belligerent American guest, Mr. Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of Fawlty Towers, appeared as Jean 'Porridge' Carter, Geoffrey Stock's secretary, in the popular 1960s crime series Ghost Squad and played the wife of Rikki Fulton's character in many sketches of the Scottish Hogmanay show Scotch and Wry during the 1970s until 1999. Other TV credits include Upstairs, Downstairs, Monarch of the Glen, The Brothers, The Two Ronnies, Take The High Road, Z-Cars and Taggart. She also appeared as Barbara Grant in the 1973 film version of Kidnapped, opposite Michael Caine and Trevor Howard.
He authored The Cookbook by Oscar of The Waldorf (1896), a 900-page book featuring all of the recipes of the day, including his own, such as Waldorf salad, Eggs Benedict and Thousand Island dressing, which remain popular worldwide today. James Remington McCarthy wrote in his book Peacock Alley that Oscar gained renown among the general public as an artist who "composed sonatas in soups, symphonies in salads, minuets in sauces, lyrics in entrees". In 1902 Tschirky published Serving a Course Dinner by Oscar of the Waldorf–Astoria, a booklet which explains the intricacies of being a caterer to the American and international elite. Tschirky continued to work for the Waldorf Astoria after the original hotel was demolished until his retirement in 1943.
Hotel Astoria and statue of Tsar Nicholas I in Saint Petersburg, Russia Boutique hotels are typically hotels with a unique environment or intimate setting. Some hotels have gained their renown through tradition, by hosting significant events or persons, such as Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany, which derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai is one of India's most famous and historic hotels because of its association with the Indian independence movement. Some establishments have given name to a particular meal or beverage, as is the case with the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, United States where the Waldorf Salad was first created or the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria, home of the Sachertorte.
Tschirky had arrived in the United States from Switzerland 10 years prior to applying for the position at the new Waldorf, and over the years grew to possess a great knowledge of cuisine. He authored The Cookbook by Oscar of the Waldorf (1896), a 900-page book featuring all of the popular recipes of the day, including his own, for which he garnered great acclaim, such as Waldorf salad, eggs Benedict, and Thousand Island dressing, which remain popular worldwide today. James Remington McCarthy wrote in his book Peacock Alley that Oscar gained renown among the general public as an artist who "composed sonatas in soups, symphonies in salads, minuets in sauces, lyrics in entrees". In 1902, Tschirky published Serving a Course Dinner by Oscar of the Waldorf-Astoria, a booklet that explains the intricacies of being a caterer to the American and international elite.
During the 1930s, gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel owned an apartment at the Waldorf, and Frank Costello was said to have got his haircut and nails done in the Barber's Shop at the Waldorf. Around the time of World War I, inventor Nikola Tesla lived in the earlier Waldorf-Astoria. In 1955, Marilyn Monroe and her husband, Arthur Miller stayed at the hotel for several months, but due to costs of trying to finance her production company "Marilyn Monroe Productions", only being paid $1,500 a week for her role in The Seven Year Itch and being suspended from 20th Century Fox for walking out on Fox after creative differences, living at the hotel became too costly and Monroe had to move into a different hotel in New York City. Around the same time that Monroe lived in the hotel, Cole Porter and his wife Linda Lee Thomas had an apartment in the Waldorf Towers, where Thomas died in 1954. Porter's 1934 song "You're the Top", contains the lyric, "You're the top, you're a Waldorf salad".
Many of the more complicated dishes with rich ingredients like Lobster Newberg, Waldorf salad, vichyssoise, eggs benedict, and the New York strip steak were born out of a need to entertain and impress the well to do in expensive bygone restaurants like Delmonico's and still standing establishments like the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and today that tradition remains alive as some of the most expensive and exclusive restaurants in the country are found in this region. New York-style pizzaSince their formative years, New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Baltimore have welcomed immigrants of every kind to their shores, and all four have been an important gateway through which new citizens to the general United States arrive. Traditionally natives have eaten cheek to jowl with newcomers for centuries as the newcomers would open new restaurants and small businesses and all the different groups would interact. Even in colonial days this region was a very diverse mosaic of peoples, as settlers from Switzerland, Wales, England, Ulster, Wallonia, Holland, Gelderland, the British Channel Islands, and Sweden sought their fortune in this region.
Its restaurants compete fiercely for good reviews in the Food and Dining section of The New York Times, online guides, and Zagat's, the last of which is widely considered the premier American dining guide, published yearly and headquartered in New York. New York–style cheesecake with strawberries. Other variations include blueberry or raspberry sauce. Many of the more complicated dishes with rich ingredients like Lobster Newberg, waldorf salad, vichyssoise, eggs benedict, and the New York strip steak were born out of a need to entertain and impress the well to do in expensive bygone restaurants like Delmonico's and still standing establishments like the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an "unripened cheese" that is heavier and creamier; other dairymen came up with similar creations independently. Since the first reference to an alcoholic mixed drink called a cocktail comes from New York State in 1803, it is thus not a surprise that there have been many cocktails invented in New York and the surrounding environs.