Salads are especially exciting these days, because we are seeing more and more Middle Eastern and Asian influences in salads, not the old lettuce, tomato, a few cucumbers, celery, some green peppers, the old, chapter-and-verse green salad.

Wikipedia defines salads as:  Salad is any of a wide variety of dishes, including vegetable salads; salads of pasta, legumes, eggs or grains; mixed salads incorporating meat, poultry or seafood; and fruit salads. They may include a mixture of cold and hot, often including raw vegetables Continue reading MINIMALIST BITTMAN’S GLORIOUS 101 SALAD DAYS OF SUMMER