June 12, 2009
Why all these culinary cooking, professional or not questions? After my very short break (really little) with the last summer flashes, I've stayed and meet several people in the ...
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Salad is any of a wide variety of dishes including: green salads; vegetable salads; salads of pasta, legumes, or grains; mixed salads incorporating meat, poultry, or seafood; and fruit salads.Encyclopedia Britanica They include a mixture of cold and hot, often including raw vegetables and/or fruits. Green salads include leaf lettuce and vegetables with a sauce or dressing. Other salads are based on pasta, noodles, or gelatin. Most salads are traditionally served cold, although some, such as south German potato salad, are served warm. The word "salad" comes from the French ''salade'' of the same meaning, which in turn is from the Latin ''salata'', "salty", from ''sal'', "salt", (See also sauce, salsa, sausage). Vegetables seasoned with brine was a popular Roman dish. The terminology "salad days", meaning a "time of youthful inexperience" (on notion of "green"), is first recorded by Shakespeare in 1606, while the use of salad bar first appeared in American English in 1976. Green salads including leaf lettuces are generally served with a dressing, as well as various toppings such as nuts or croutons, and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta, cheese, eggs, or whole grains. Salad is often served as an appetizer before a larger meal, but can also be a side dish, or a main course.
Salad refers to a variety of dishes consisting of foods mixed with a dressing. Vegetable salads, meat salads and pasta salads are all popular varieties. A green salad generally has lettuce or some other leafy green vegetable as a base.