Stop The World, I Want To Get Salads

Stop the World, I Want to Get SaladsThroughout History great trenchermen have taken the whole world for their salad bowl. As early as 1631, the English cookbook author John Murre described a "Grand Sallet" fashioned not with run-of-the-garden greens from his British Isles, but with sun-drenched fruits from Mediterranean groves, livened with French capers. Goethe, in a burst of lyricism to the anchovy, once struck off a poem beginning, "Die Welt ist ein Sardellensalat." Even A...