Waldorf salad

Description

Unlike the many folk salads featured here, Waldorf salad was born in urban royalty. It was invented at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City in the 1890s by Oscar Tschirky, the Waldorf’s maître d’hôtel who created many of the hotel’s signature dishes. An episode of the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers features the salad in what was literally its “Waldorf Salad” episode.