SC - salads (long)

[maddie teller-kook]

One thing I have used when i want to make a perio-oid salad is mixed wild field
greens. It just looks like someone went out and picked it from the field.
granted many of the lettuces in there aren't period but, i think when one is in
a rush... it can be a good substitute for a quick prep period salad. I will add
some dried fruits (raisins, figs), almonds and orange slices, top with a good
vinegrette and voila! Salad!

meadhbh
(who sometimes has to take care of cooking last minute.)

Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:

> Hi all from Anne-Marie
> we are told (by Stefan? I lost track in the he said/she saids...):
> > However, my experience has been that 95 percent or greater of the salads
> > I've had have iceburg lettuce in them. That alone, IMHO, disallows the
> > idea that the modern salads and the medieval ones were "often" the same.
> >
>
> You know its funny. I think that muchly depends on where you're from and
> how you were raised. Me, I was raised by a "bleeding heart liberal" mom in
> the Santa Cruz mountains in the 60s-70s. I didnt eat salads with iceberg
> lettuce until I went away to college (those farmworkers striking, et al).
> We grew up on spinach salads and not till I was much older did I find out
> that that wasnt the norm. Spinach and chard and beet greens and shredded
> cabbage and onion and all that stuff. So to me, a "modern salad", ie one
> like my mom made us IS the same as a medieval one.
>
> Iceberg lettuce is the cheapest kind there is, so that's why most
> restaurants will rely on it so heavily, though around here, lettuce is more
> expensive than other kinds of greens, so you tend to get more romaine,
> interesting greens, etc than other places, like the midwest.
>
> Social and dietary anthorpology at its best, no? :)
> --AM
> Madrone/ An Tir
> Seattle/Wash
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