Chinese chicken salad often presume a bound salad with chopped vegetables and mayonnaise, typically without lettuce. For example, "The Settlement Cookbook" by Mrs. Simon Kander, published as early as 1910, includes a simple "Lettuce salad" with chopped onion and French or German dressing; but, no Chinese, Asian or Oriental salad of any kind. Similar bound chicken salads were found in "Joy of Cooking" as of the 1974 editions (first published as of 1931). It was by 1950s that main course type salads started to appear in books like "Better Homes & Gardens, New Cook Book"; whereas, that often included Caesar salad along with
Blue cheese dressing the emulsion) is a potential problem with blue cheese dressing. Microbial spoilage is a concern for any type of processed food. Studies have shown that "Saccharomyces bailii" and "Lactobacillus fructivorans" are two common microorganisms that spoil salad dressings. "Lactobacillus fructivorans" is a facultative anaerobe that is acid tolerant, and can survive in a low pH food such as blue cheese dressing. Blue cheese dressing Blue cheese dressing is a popular salad dressing and dip in the United States. It is usually made of some combination of blue cheese, mayonnaise, and either or all buttermilk, sour cream or yogurt, milk, vinegar,