Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A Waldorf salad is a salad consisting of apple, nuts, celery, and mayonnaise. It was first created in 1896 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York by Oscar Tschirky who was the maître d'hôtel. It is traditionally served on lettuce. The Waldorf Salad is the title of a 1979 episode of Fawlty Towers which concerns a bad-tempered American guest's increasing frustration with Basil Fawlty's incompetence, symbolised by Fawlty's continuing inability to produce the salad of the title. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.