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Article snippet: After a six-year hiatus, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is back, and not a moment too soon. What better way to honor Larry David’s return to his old shenanigans than with a culinary tour of the most uncomfortable half-hour of television? Below you’ll find a recipe for Cobb salad, a take on food on a stick and more. If “Curb Your Enthusiasm” gives you too much secondhand anxiety, feel free to check out previous installments of our TV Dinners series, with suggestions for what to cook while you watch “Seinfeld,” “30 Rock” and “Arrested Development.” Have feedback on this recipe collection, or remember signature “Curb Your Enthusiasm” food moments I missed? Send me an email at tvdinners@nytimes.com. Who invented the Cobb salad? According to Larry’s dinner companion in this episode, Cliff Cobb, it was invented by his grandfather at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Larry, as well as our food writer Alison Roman, are a bit more skeptical about the salad’s origins. As Ms. Roman explains in the instructions for this classic, there are a few ingredients that you absolutely must include: “tender chicken breast, tangy tomatoes, perfectly hard-boiled egg and, perhaps most important, crispy bacon.” Larry’s take on the Cobb — sans bacon and eggs, with the blue cheese on the side — may not, ultimately, pass the test. Is there any greater honor than to have a sandwich named after you? And could there be any more crushing a disappointment than to have that sandwich be everything you hate betwe... Link to the full article to read more