SC - medieval Italian salads

[Mark Harris]

On Tuesday, June 3, Lionardo Acquistapace declared:

>The basic Italian salad would consist of greens (yes, including
>lettuce) placed in a bowl rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with
>vinegar, salt and (usually olive) oil. (Modern Italian salads, at
>least in Northern Italy, are pretty much the same thing to this day.
>Dump the "Italian Dressing"! ;-))

I'm not sure if I understand this description or not. Are you saying 
that the empty bowl is rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with
vinegar, salt and oil and then the salad is added? Rather than the
salad being rubbed with garlic and then sprinkled with the other
items?

Definitely a different effect than "modern"salads. It seems like most
of the garlic taste would end up on the bowl and not in the salad and
that the medieval salad would be much drier.

Stefan li Rous
markh at risc.sps.mot.com