Olivia Salad is also known as Olivier Salad, Salade Olivier, Salat
Olivier, Salad Olivieh, and several other variations. Here are some
references regarding the origin of this delectable dish:
"Based on peas, carrot cubes, potato cubes and mayonnaise and served
in virtually every restaurant in Germany and nearly every French
bistro and brasserie, "Russian salad" is probably one of the world's
best known side dishes. What is not so widely known is that the dish
served has nothing whatever to do with Russia.
The simple truth is that the original version of Russian salad was
devised by Jacques Olivier, a French chef who had been born in Dijon.
It is true that Olivier had been in the service of Czar Nicholas II.
Unlike his employer, however, the chef escaped from Russia and opened
a restaurant in Wiesbaden, Germany and it was there that he invented
the dish that he named "salade a la Russe" in honor of his former
employer. "
Rogov's Ramblings: Salade a la Russe
http://www.stratsplace.com/rogov/salade_russe.html
"...Traditional dishes "Beef Stroganoff" and "Salad Bagration" were
both invented by the French master-chef Olivier, who spent his whole
creative life in Imperial St Petersburg, working for the richest
patrons who could afford his services... Lucien Olivier worked at the
Hermitage restaurant in Moscow."
Russia.com Discussion Forum: Food & Drink
http://www.russia.com/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=8451
"This salad was originally the creation of a French chef, M. Olivier,
who had a fashionable restaurant in Moscow called The Hermitage in the
1860s."
The Iranian: Salad Olivier, Where it came from and how to make it
http://www.iranian.com/Food/2001/May/Salad/
"This salad was invented by a French Chef, M. Olivier, who served it
in Moscow around 1860. Variations, sometimes called "Salade
Olivier", "Russian Salad" or "Sour Russian Potato Salad", abound
worldwide."
Sneaky Kitchen: Salad Olivier
http://sneakykitchen.com/Recipes/salad_olivier.htm
"Two salads that appear at every Russian festival are a meat salad and
a herring salad. The meat salad, called Salad Olivier after the
nineteenth-century chef who invented it, is made of canned peas, cubed
boiled carrots, cubed boiled potatoes, pickles, onions, and cubes of
lean ham or a sausage such as kielbasa."
Oregon State University: Multicultural Calendar, Food and Drink
http://www.orst.edu/admin/multicultural/Calendar2001/0101food.html
"Potatoes and sturgeon salad "Olivier" made after the recipe of
Olivier, the outstanding French cook, who was invited to Russia by Mr
Khludov to discover the secret of his popularity."
Na Melnitse Rstaurant: Russian/English Menu
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:hrNX-l1YljwC:www.namelnitse.ru/eng/menu.doc
In an online poll, Salad Olivier is one option in a list of "favorite
national dishes of the many national cuisines of Kazakhstan":
http://www.geocities.com/zorrik2000/polls.html
A selection of recipes from online cookbooks:
Josephine's Recipes: Salad Olivia
http://home.earthlink.net/~aidietrich/josephine/recipes.html
Persian Outpost: Salad Olivieh
http://www.persianoutpost.com/htdocs/SaladOlivieh.html
Persian Outpost: Salad Olivieh, Southwestern style (spicy)
http://www.persianoutpost.com/htdocs/SpicySaladOlivieh.html
Kidlink Multi-Cultural Recipe Book: Olivier Salad
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Recipe/recipe94.htm
Judy Hallman's Favorite Recipes: Salat Olivier
http://www.unc.edu/~hallman/cookbook/chicken-salad.html
Cooking is Fun: Olivier Salad
http://www.cookingisfun.ie/letters/march2001/24thmarch.htm
Boston.com: Cafe St Petersburg Salad
http://ae.boston.com/dining/recipes/s/st_pete_salad.html
California Society for Respiratory Care: Salad Olivier
http://www.csrc.org/cd/pastrecpies.htm
The Atlantic Online: A Moveable Fiesta/Russian Salad
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/corby/fiesta.htm
Yum Yums Russian Recipes: Olivier Salat
http://members.tripod.com/~dyumyum/russian2.html
My Google search strategy:
"salad" + "olivier"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=salad+olivier
I hope this information is useful. Please request a clarification if I
can provide additional assitance, or if any of the links above do not
function.
Best wishes,
pinkfreud |
Clarification of Answer by
pinkfreud-ga
on
24 Oct 2002 14:56 PDT
Thank you very much for the five-star rating!
Regarding the spelling, although it appears that the chef who created
the salad was named Olivier, there are many, many variations of the
name in recipes. My grandmother, who has a charming way of contorting
words, used to call this an "olive oil salad," and I grew up assuming
that it was a Greek or Italian dish!
~pinkfreud
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