Pasta Salad with Bacon and Eggs Recipe

Richard Hellmann emigrated to New York City from Germany in 1903. Couple of

years later he opened a deli. His wife’s recipe for mayonnaise

was used in the salads. The mayo was so tasty that customers wanted to buy

it. As take out packaging at a neighborhood deli was limited in those

days, Hellmann began selling the mayonnaise in the “wooden boats”

that were used for weighing butter.

Soon, the mayonnaise made it into jars. Back then there were two

variations of the recipe that were sold. To tell the difference between them,

Hellmann put a blue ribbon around one version.

The “blue ribbon” recipe was in high demand, in 1912, Hellmann

designed a label with a blue ribbon at the top.…