Even better the next day The Age, Australia - 49 minutes ago
Australians are among the world's most wasteful consumers of food. Whatever happened to cooking with leftovers? Necia Wilden reports.
TWO of the great dishes of the world, caesar salad and trifle, were originally created from leftovers. Who knows who first thought of soaking stale breadcrumbs in milk and mixing them with sugar and sherry for a "trifling" dessert? And who, in the 18th century, had the bright idea of using sponge biscuits instead of breadcrumbs and adding jelly? We don't know, of course, because the original recipes for trifle are lost in the mists of time. We do know, however, the story of how Tijuana hotelier Caesar Cardini created his famous salad, in a blur of kitchen panic when hordes of diners inundated his restaurant. He had run out of just about everything except cos lettuce, coddled eggs, parmesan, croutons, garlic-flavoured olive oil and a little Worcestershire sauce. To borrow a phrase from a friend of mine, he "shook the fridge". Hey presto. On July 4, 1924, a dish was born.
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