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.

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,

Ranch dressing is a savory, creamy American salad dressing usually made from buttermilk, salt, garlic, onion, mustard, herbs (commonly chives, parsley and dill), and spices (commonly pepper, paprika and ground mustard seed) mixed into a sauce based on mayonnaise or another oil emulsion.

On October 30, 1972, The Clorox Company bought a small mail-order dressing business called Hidden Valley® Ranch.

Doritos made it famous. Stores first sold the dry mix until shelf-stable bottles of the creamy dressing were introduced in 1983. By the time Cool Ranch Doritos hit the grocery scene in 1986, the ranch phenomenon was officially here to stay.

The story goes that while working in Alaska, Steve Henson came up with the dressing. In 1954 he later relocated to California and bought the Hidden Valley Ranch, he started serving the dressing to the guests. They loved it so much that many asked to be able to bring the dressing home with them after leaving the ranch.

cattle station In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm (station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a grazier.

/rɑntʃ/ A ranch is a large farm that raises animals, generally grazing animals like cows or sheep. If you dream of raising big, strange-looking birds, you could decide to have an emu or an ostrich ranch instead. Ranches raise animals for meat, and in the case of sheep or alpacas, for wool.

1992 It wasn't until 1983 that people could buy a premixed bottle of ranch at the grocery store. In 1992, it became the most popular dressing in America.

What makes ranch ranch? It's a combination of creaminess (from buttermilk, sour cream, sometimes mayonnaise) and herbaceousness (often parsley, thyme, dill), plus a long pull of allium (onion and garlic) and a shot of black pepper.

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.

1992 It wasn't until 1983 that people could buy a premixed bottle of ranch at the grocery store. In 1992, it became the most popular dressing in America.

Steven Henson, the Nebraska native who created ranch dressing, invented the now-ubiquitous condiment after moving to Anchorage in 1949 and taking a job as a plumbing contractor in the Alaskan bush, according to a biography of Henson published in the Santa Barbara Independent.