In the US, a classic Italian dressing combines olive oil, vinegar, Parmesan, and garlic – and herbs and spices including basil, oregano, parsley, and chili pile on the flavor. It’s tasty, versatile, and an essential recipe that everyone should have in their back pocket. It’s also American, and it’s likely to have been invented around the 1940s. There are two people who claim to have created it (both of whom say they were inspired by their Italian mothers’ recipes): Phillip Sollomi, who owned the Wish-Bone Restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, and Florence Hanna, whose husband Ken ran Ken’s Steakhouse in Framingham, Massachusetts.
