Ranch was created by a plumber, Steve Henson and his wife, Gayle. In 1954, they purchased a ranch right above Santa Barbara, California and named it Hidden Valley Ranch. They opened a steakhouse there that became popular for its salad dressing.

Santa Barbara Hidden Valley® Original Ranch® dressing was developed in the late 1950s by real ranchers, Steve and Gayle Henson. The Hidden Valley® Guest Ranch is located near Santa Barbara in California and was favored by visitors who wanted to enjoy the natural surroundings.

On October 30, 1972, The Clorox Company bought a small mail-order dressing business called Hidden Valley® Ranch. Forty-five years on, the Hidden Valley brand has grown far beyond its rural California beginnings.

According to a new video from Great Big Story, Steve and Gale Henson bought a piece of land called Sweet Water Ranch in 1954. The couple loved the area, but hated the name, and decided to change it to something a bit more rugged, renaming it Hidden Valley.

Meanwhile, back in Santa Barbara, the Hidden Valley Ranch is no more. Steve Henson sold the brand to the Clorox company in 1972 for $8 million; in 2017, Hidden Valley products (there are more than 50) took in over $450 million, according to industry analysts.

The original recipe can mostly be traced back to the early 1900s in Thousand Islands, New York, where the tangy pinkish condiment got its namesake.

Ranch Dressing: Recipe Invented By Black Rancher Steve Henson. Welcome To Black Mail! Where we bring you Black History, Special Delivery. Steve Henson (1918-2007) created ranch dressing to compliment the dishes he was serving to his work crews while working as a plumber in Alaska.

#BlackFoodFact 👍🏾 A Black man named Steve Henson invented Ranch - aka “Americas favorite salad dressing!”

Hidden Valley is popular for filming movies and television shows due to its proximity to Los Angeles, such as:

• the home of President Charles Logan in the television series 24, seasons 5 and 6,
• much of the film Seabiscuit,
• the original site for Greg Sumner's ranch on Knots Landing,

This bottle's no joke. It's covered in 75 carats' worth of jewels, making it valued at $35,000. You could almost buy three brand-new Nissan Versas for that. But Hidden Valley knows you can't put a price tag on love, be it the holy matrimony kind or the condiment-you-drizzle-on-everything variety.

A diamond made from ranch dressing just sold for $12,550 Hidden Valley Ranch hired a professional diamond maker to heat-blast its ranch dressing to 2,500 degrees and then crush the resulting charred dressing under 400 tons of pressure. Five months later, voila! The two-carat (carrot? It is for the salad, right?)

McDonald's Big Mac Sauce is similar to Thousand Island dressing, but they're not the same. Thousand Island dressing normally incorporates ketchup, while a lot of Big Mac Sauce recipes incorporate French dressing. French dressing gives it a bit of a tangier flavor than ketchup does.