But the salads we eat are different from those of our childhood. This starter salad at La Bourse et La Vie in Paris included a rainbow of tomato colors.įast forward to the present and we now choose to make and eat salad on a regular basis. Some were standard tossed salads while others impressed us with unique ingredients like compressed watermelon and horse meat. Without a plan or intention, we ate dozens and dozens of salads. It wasn’t pretty.ĭuring our nomadic years, we ate salads in four continents. As for Mindi, her mother mostly prepared salads with iceberg lettuce and smothered the greens with store-bought dressing. In fact, Daryl hated the stuff and rarely ate it. We didn’t love salad when we were little. Our History with Salad This Watermelon and Feta Salad we ate in Ljubljana proves that lettuce and tomatoes aren’t mandatory salad ingredients. They quickly chop their vegetable bounty with chef knives and some (like us) even skip the uni-tasker dust collector otherwise known as a salad spinner. As you can see, not all those leaps forward were positive.īut today, many are returning to their salad roots (pun intended) by buying fresh ingredients at weekend farm markets and through CSA memberships. Salads took a big leap in the 20th century when modern technology provided tools like salad spinners and food choppers to home cooks while chain markets sold those same consumers bagged lettuce and jarred dressing. Far from simple, this salad at Sparrow + Wolf in Las Vegas combined typical tomatoes with more exotic dashi broth and seaweed. Many of the salads we eat today are more modern creations that incorporate new world ingredients that weren’t globally available in ancient times. Like many foods, salad has evolved over the years. In other words, salad doesn’t have a specific origin story.
The Brits also have a long history with salads as do Asian nations like China and Thailand. Historians trace mixed salads back to ancient empires that include the Greeks, Persians and Romans. Men and women have been eating salads for centuries, probably for as long as they have been eating bread, maybe even longer. Our Picks for the Best Salads in the World.
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