Many people think the Caesar salad was named after the Roman emperor, but the real story is much more recent. It was actually created by an Italian-American restaurateur named Caesar Cardini. The year was 1924, and Cardini was running a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico, to get around Prohibition laws in the United States. On a busy Fourth of July weekend, his kitchen was overwhelmed with American customers and started running low on supplies. Instead of turning people away, Cardini gathered what he