Cobb salad 的詞源

一種豐盛的切碎沙拉，通常作為主菜，1949年。據說以洛杉磯布朗德比餐廳的老板羅伯特·霍華德·Cobb（1970年去世）的名字命名。1949年《Brown Derby Cookbook》聲稱了其創作的故事：

Bob Cobb, growing weary of the standard hot-dog-hamburger diet, found an avocado in the icebox. He chopped it up, along with some lettuce, celery and tomatoes, plus a strip of bacon and some salad dressing, and had that for his dinner. Several days later he tried it again, adding other ingredients which he had purchased on his way to work: breast of chicken, chives, hard-boiled egg, watercress, and a wedge of Roquefort cheese for the dressing. And that's how the Cobb Salad was born. [Marjorie Child Husted, The Brown Derby Cookbook, 1949.]

博布·科布厭倦了標準的熱狗漢堡飲食，在冰箱中發現了一個酪梨。他將它與一些生菜、芹菜和番茄，以及一條培根和一些沙拉醬切碎，作為晚餐。幾天後，他再次嘗試，加入了他在上班路上購買的其他食材：雞胸肉、細香蔥、煮熟的雞蛋、水田芥和一片羅克福奶酪作為沙拉醬。這就是科布沙拉的誕生。 [Marjorie Child Husted, The Brown Derby Cookbook, 1949.]

這個姓氏是英語姓氏，據說源自Jacob的縮小形式；但它也是古英語中對酋長的稱呼，詳見cob (n.)