The Salad Bowl ... Bellissima!

The Salad Bowl ... Bellissima!Italians positively relish disagreeing about food. There are northern Italians in Piemonte and Lombardia, for instance, who cherish their daily risotto yet shun all of Italy's 300-odd kinds of pasta. All unite, however, in shouting a resounding bravo when it comes to salads. The reason is obvious. So wide and deep is their salad bowl, and so completely unbound by convention, that the possibilities are unlimited.In concocting the Italian salad, every dissident has hi...