Comments on: Summer Salad http://www.helenhare.net/food/index.php/2008/06/15/summer-salad/ Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:38:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lisa http://www.helenhare.net/food/index.php/2008/06/15/summer-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Lisa Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:24:38 +0000 http://www.helenhare.net/food/index.php/2008/06/15/summer-salad/#comment-296 Chef Salad used to be pretty big in North America around 10-20 years ago, and I think you can probably still get it in most diners/family restaurants. This version is quite a bit more "sophisticated" in that the ones you tend to get in NA contain lettuce, ham, tomato/other typical salad veg, and maybe some shredded processed cheese. You're right about French cooking seeming dated (maybe in the 70s we thought French cooking was really posh and impressive, and that was important back in the age of dinner parties?) and I'm definitely more influenced by Italian cuisine. I suspect that chefs like Jamie Oliver have brought Italian cookery into vogue. Chef Salad used to be pretty big in North America around 10-20 years ago, and I think you can probably still get it in most diners/family restaurants. This version is quite a bit more “sophisticated” in that the ones you tend to get in NA contain lettuce, ham, tomato/other typical salad veg, and maybe some shredded processed cheese.

You’re right about French cooking seeming dated (maybe in the 70s we thought French cooking was really posh and impressive, and that was important back in the age of dinner parties?) and I’m definitely more influenced by Italian cuisine. I suspect that chefs like Jamie Oliver have brought Italian cookery into vogue.

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