Five Recipes Salad was much

Diana Henry prepares a salad can "you can travel while still standing" Photo: HAMILTON Haarala

For years before I would spend a holiday abroad, the tax collection a food writer. For me, what are the holidays - Check the other food culture. He came home with my bag and pockets full of hastily scribbled notes. It was a blackcurrant liqueur from some guys in northern Italy, bread coffee yogurt in Stockholm, fantastic chicken salad Zuni Café in San Francisco. It's not just foods that are a source of inspiration - which is the product, and the style of the kitchen. Iceland last summer I filled the pages of a notebook with the affected just because of the "new" Nordic dishes - for my taste - and licorice combinations over beets, mussels with seaweed butter, lamb angelica.

Salads are one of the easiest things to get ideas. They generally require no cooking involved and are very representative of the country they come from. It thai chicken salad is easy to make a Thai curry (with a complicated curry paste) and immediately get that sweet and sour hot and sour, that is so characteristic of the kitchen there.If I saw all the salads, less than it took France and most of America. It's funny because before the discovery of French cuisine - my first "love of food" large - never liked the salad.

A simple green salad, nicely dressed, always came after the main course. All dishes can be in tomatoes, lentils and carrot salad with pork. But apart from the Nicoise, Wild lettuce (the show seems all the luxury kitchen includes) and goat cheese salad, it's hard to think of many well-known French salad salads. What are brilliant, however, is that the salad eaten warm or at room temperature in a locker. Take the bowl of beans below. Put it next to a roast chicken and a glass of Dijon mustard and remember why French cuisine is revered.

America, for me, the rules in the salad department. This is partly the abundance of fresh produce, in part, all influences - Italian, Asian, Mexican - food. My first trip to California showed me what could be a salad. I wanted to see, figs and tomatoes Crave lawyers and in many different sizes and colors. Soon I leaned unknown, as grains of buckwheat in bowl. The kitchen is very well explore places, the limits of your kitchen. This allows you to travel while still. And the salads are one of the best things you can do.

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