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Salad Daze

Season 1, Episode 4, Aired Jul 28, 1999

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Exiled to bars, chopped and pre-packaged, drenched in noxious concoctions, the tossed salad deserves better. Alton Brown goes back to salad basics and pays homage to Caesar. Recipes featured in this episode: Hail Caesar Salad and Veni Vedi Vinaigrette.

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Stephanie Boyd

Caesar Salad Date #2
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Doug Gallagher

Lettuce Farmer

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- Shortly after it's invention, Caesar's Salad was hailed by the International Society of Epicures as America's greatest dish in 50 years.
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- Vinaigrettes can also be emulsified with pureed vegetables.
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- The darker the leaf the more nutritious the green.
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- The Average American eats 30 Lbs. of lettuce a year.
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- Oil Vender: Heh, oy. Vinager Maker: Idiot. Oil Vender: Estupido. Vinager Maker: You've, you've gotten your greasy oil inside my beautiful vinegar. Oil Vender: You're smelly, stinky white stuff into my wonderful oil, heh. both: Oooooooooh! (dip celery in mixture) Oil Vender: Hey, that's not bad. Vinager Maker: It's perfect. Oil Vender: Yes.
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- Introduces Vickie Eng as put-upon equipment specialist, "W".
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- This episode is included in the Tossed Around (Volume 6) DVD.
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- The scene with the oil vendor and vinegar maker having their products accidentally mixed is a take-off of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups commercials, where people with chocolate and peanut butter would crash into each other.
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- Salad Daze Salad Days - Phrase taken from Shakespeare's play "Antony And Cleopatra" Act I, Scene V.
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