Review by Booklist Review
Tired of same old greens like iceberg with dressing? Prefer something other than ripping open supermarket salad bags? Creativity in salad stuff has arrived, with America's Test Kitchen editors investigating all the different ways salads can be developed. The start, they say, is to identify exactly what category eaters are in the mood for, from the type of slicing and dicing used (chopped, crumbled, spiralized, etc.) to the state of ingredients (raw, tossed, and the like). Those decisions morph into a spreadsheet of sorts: the four architectural elements of a salad, the five-point game plan (experiment? use leftovers?), and six enhancing techniques such as toasting and shaving ingredients. After a few more pages of recommendations--keeping the wooden salad bowl in top shape, making vinaigrette, acquiring kitchen tools--the salads, 200-plus of them, begin. Separated into four categories (leafy, fruits and vegetables, beans and grains, pasta and noodles), the recipes span world cuisines: for example, Thai larb, fattoush with chickpeas, horiatiki salata (aka Greek salad), grilled panzanella, chicken and cellophane noodles. Easy-to-fashion edibles beyond the grocery shelves.
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