 We're just a few days away from the Caesar salad turning 100 years old on July 4th. The Caesar salad was invented by an Italian chef in Mexico on an American holiday a century ago. Caesar Cardini, who lived in San Diego, opened his restaurant Caesar's in Tijuana the year before to avoid prohibition in the U.S. While running low on supplies, Caesar threw together what he had left, put it over lettuce, and made it table side, inventing the Caesar salad we all enjoy worldwide today. I'm Chris Coraggio.