Trivia: The Origin of Cobb Salad



The first Cobb salad was made from leftovers.

Cobb saladThe story goes like this: In the late 1930s, LA’s famous Brown Derby restaurant owner Bob Cobb went to fix a late night snack for Sid Grauman, the owner of Grauman’s Chinese Theater. He took leftovers from the refrigerator and chopped them up finely because Grauman was suffering from a toothache. Grauman loved the salad so much that Cobb added it to the menu. (Photo: kk+ [Flickr])


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Posted on January 10, 2008 at 2:31 pm by Alex
Category: Daily Trivia, Food & Drinks

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2 comments to "Trivia: The Origin of Cobb Salad"

  • brian t
    January 10th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    There’s an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” where another character claims his grandfather invented Cobb Salad, and Larry doubts this and looks up the true story (as above). Larry was right, but… he has to make a “thing” of it, doesn’t he?!

  • JohnG
    January 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    There’s a funny bit on Curb Your Enthusiasm about this piece of trivia. Season Two, in the episode Trick or Treat.

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