Salad "Olivier" - popular in the former Soviet Union salad, which is considered a holiday and the traditional New Year. The name was in honor of its creator, chef Lucien Olivier, who held in Moscow in the early 60s of the XIX century Parisian restaurant kitchen "Hermitage." Abroad is known as the "Russian salad"
In the southern province of France - Provence - Culinary lived dynasty Olivier. It does not stand out from hundreds of their kind, because the chef profession has always been popular with the French. But in the early nineteenth century, famous for creating a delicious sauce, which gave a romantic name of "Provence". Three brothers, Olivier conjured in the kitchens of France, Lucien went to the same junior hospitable to conquer Moscow.
A man in Russia as a snack traditionally preferred pickled mushrooms and cucumbers, pickled apples and sauerkraut with cranberries. On top of all the troubles in the capital restaurants have learned to cook salads are about the same, only the cream sauce. It was necessary to urgently invent something new. Lucien Olivier threw a "culinary-political council" with helpers: chefs Duguay and Marius, who was well known taste preferences of the Moscow public.
A few months later the capital was a rumor that the restaurant "Moscow" did not shine particularly original dishes, there was just a few masterpieces of culinary art. Among them - the salad "Capital", according to Moscow's gourmets, the closest in taste to "Olivier." The name of the chef, despite the current fashion, it was absolutely Russian - Ivan Mikhailovich Ivanov. Competition has pushed back the search for Oliver and he began to experiment with a vengeance. Selected for new combinations of meat, cucumbers and apples, only grouse were still the main ingredient.
Reached us, and this version of "Oliver": 2 equal portions of roast veal fillet and grouse, 5 boiled potatoes, boiled celery root large, on polbanki olives, pitted, half a cup of pickled gooseberries and cherries, pitted, 5 salted gherkins, 15 crayfish, 300 grams of cooked mushrooms, 4 eggs boiled. Well, you can still add 2 fresh cucumber ...
However, such a sad story of a completed their own restaurant, salad, "Oliver" won a place on the home table of Muscovites. As is known, its main components are boiled potatoes, boiled sausage, diced, and mayonnaise. The rest of this salad provides a free fantasy owner, a lady, telling the recipe said, "And I put everything in the house."
The largest salad - weighing 1007.8 kg - was prepared in Syktyvkar in August 2009. To make it, it took 190 kg of potatoes, 5,000 eggs, 231 kg of cucumbers, 167 kg of sausage, green peas 75 kg, 8 kg of greens and 3 kg of salt. Application for a record sent to the Guinness Book of Records.
In February 2009 the newspaper "Trud" start calculating the so-called "index Olivier" to calculate the rate of inflation in consumer prices for food. According to the newspaper quoted experts, "Olivier index" is much more accurately reflects the level of inflation than the data of Rosstat.