The Gastronomer: Salad, a symphony of enemies

On July 3, 2010, in Cooking, by Dale Dougherty

Salad hates dressing, and dressing hates itself.

Let me explain. The greens we use in salad, whether or not they come from the lettuce family, are tender leaves with a shiny, waxy layer on the outside and thin cell walls within. The cells should be packed with moisture, enough to make the cell walls burst when we bite into them, creating the characteristic crunch that most people appreciate.

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3 Responses to The Gastronomer: Salad, a symphony of enemies

  1. Kent Barnes says:

    My wife thinks I am strange because most of the time I like my green salad without any dressing.
    Perhaps a dressed salad is hiding greens that are not as flavorful as they should be.
    Was not Mustard invented to make rotten meat?

  2. Kent Barnes says:

    My wife thinks I am strange because most of the time I like my green salad without any dressing.
    Perhaps a dressed salad is hiding greens that are not as flavorful as they should be.
    Was not Mustard invented to mask rotten meat?

  3. Kent Barnes says:

    Oops, Ha!
    I am so often writing the word “make” when I post, that I put it in place of the
    word “mask ” that I thought I wrote.
    And there is no way to un-post.

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