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The Caesar salad was born in 1924 in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini had opened Restaurante Caesar's to attract US visitors craving an escape from the prohibition laws. The story goes that on a bustling Fourth of July, the restaurant was running short on menu items, so Caesar snatched up the leftover ingredients, rolled them out in a dining cart in the presence of drunk, hunger-stricken Americans, and prepared an improvised salad with a theatrical flourish, tableside, distracting them from the random ingredients. It was an unexpected success.

The story behind Caesar salad

A fun tour around the Tiny Desk. I was actually surprised that it's not a set but an actual desk in an office.

I just scrapped my original version of this blog in favor of a design I more or less created by hand (with the help of Claude Code, of course). I was previously using a theme based on AstroPaper but now this blog runs on on 11ty. It's nothing special, but really all I wanted was a simple, clean, and readable site where I could post ideas and links that I want to remember. So that's all this is.