France

Admit that a good vinaigrette is something and it transforms a salad! While we have been cooking with olive oil for, at the very least, 7000 years, especially in Israel, and traces of vinegar have been found that are also 7000 years old in Egypt or in Mesopotamia, the current Iraq, it is only a few centuries ago, if I dare say, that we would have dared to mix the two. And according to our old culinary books, it is to a Frenchman that we owe it...