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The article on Theda Bara, from Ted Gooding, reminded us that the Cobb salad was originally created for Sid Grauman.
The Food Maven
provides "the
official story" as recorded by the Brown Derby itself:
"One night in 1937, Bob Cobb, then owner of The Brown Derby,
prowled hungrily in his restaurant's kitchen for a snack. Opening the huge refrigerator, he pulled out this and that: a head
of lettuce, an avocado, some romaine, watercress, tomatoes, some cold breast of chicken, a hard-boiled egg, chives, cheese
and some old-fashioned French dressing. He started chopping. Added some crisp bacon -- swiped from a busy chef.
The Cobb salad was born. It was so good, Sid Grauman (Grauman's Chinese Theatre), who was with Cobb that midnight, asked
the next day for a 'Cobb Salad.' It was so good that it was put on the menu.
Cobb's midnight invention became an overnight sensation with Derby customers, people like movie mogul Jack Warner, who
regularly dispatched his chauffeur to pick up a carton of the mouth-watering salad."
Naturally,Wilipedia offers a slightly different version.
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