Green Goddess Dressing

Green goddess is an American dressing or a dip made with a combination of anchovy paste or fillets, mayonnaise, sour cream, garlic, parsley, chives, tarragon, and lemon juice. The ingredients are simply blended together until smooth. It is recommended to garnish the concoction with black pepper, if desired. Green goddess dressing is typically served as a salad dressing or as a dip for crudités. It can also be drizzled over seafood and grilled chicken or stirred into pasta or rice. It is believed that the dressing originates from the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where it was made in 1923 by the hotel’s executive chef named Philip Roemer, who prepared it as a tribute to actor George Arliss and his play The Green Goddess.