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Salad

Salad is a mixture of cold or hot foods, usually including vegetables and/or fruits, often with a dressing, occasionally nuts or croutons, and sometimes with the addition of meat

Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
, fish

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
, pasta

Pasta

Pasta is a generic term for Italian cuisine variants of noodles, food made from a dough of flour, water and/or Egg , that is Boiling. The word can also denote dishes in which pasta products are the primary ingredient, served with sauce or seasonings....
, cheese

Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
, eggs, or whole grains. Salad is often served as an appetizer before a larger meal.

The word "salad" comes from the French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
salade of the same meaning, which in turn is from the Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
salata, "salty", from sal, "salt", (See also sauce

Sauce

In cooking, a sauce is liquid or sometimes semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish....
, salsa

Salsa (sauce)

Salsa is the Spanish language, Arabic language, and Italian language word that can refer to any type of sauce. In American English it usually refers to the Spice, often tomato- or maize-based hot sauces typical of Mexican cuisine, particularly those used as food dips....
, sausage

Sausage

A sausage is a prepared food, usually made from ground meat, animal fat, salt, and spices , typically packed in a casing . Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique....
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diarist

Diary

For other uses of the term 'diary', see Diary .A 'diary' is a record with discrete entries arranged by Calendar date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period....
John Evelyn

John Evelyn

John Evelyn was an England writer, gardener and diarist.Evelyn's diary or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time ....
wrote a book on salads, Acetaria: A Discourse on Sallets (1699), that describes the new salad greens like "sellery" (celery), coming out of Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
and the Netherlands

Netherlands

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Salad is a mixture of cold or hot foods, usually including vegetables and/or fruits, often with a dressing, occasionally nuts or croutons, and sometimes with the addition of meat

Meat

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
, pasta

Pasta

Cheese

French language

Latin

Sauce

Salsa (sauce)

Sausage

A sausage is a prepared food, usually made from ground meat, animal fat, salt, and spices , typically packed in a casing . Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique....
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History

The diarist

Diary

John Evelyn

Italy

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
. Recently, salads have been sold commercially in supermarkets for those who do not have time to prepare a home-made salad, at restaurants (restaurants will often have a "Salad Bar" laid out with salad-making ingredients which the customer will use to put together their salad) and at fast-food chains specialising in health food. Fast-food chains such as McDonalds and KFC, that typically sell "junk food

Junk food

File:Luther Burger Google.jpgJunk food is an informal term applied to some foods which are perceived to have little or no nutritional value, or to products with nutritional value but which also have ingredients considered unhealthy when regularly eaten, or to those considered unhealthy to consume at all....
" such as hamburgers, fries and fried chicken, have begun selling packaged salads in order to appeal to the health-conscious.

Green salad

The "green salad" or "garden salad

Garden salad

A garden salad is an entree sized salad. The smaller-sized salad is called a side salad. The base for the salad is lettuce such as iceberg or romaine or some mesclun greens....
" is most often composed of some vegetables, built up on a base of leaf vegetable

Leaf vegetable

Leaf vegetables, also called potherbs, greens, or leafy greens, are plant leaf eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender Petiole s and shoots....
s such as one or more lettuce

Lettuce

Lettuce is a temperate annual plant or biennial plant of the daisy family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable. In many countries, it is typically eaten cold, raw, in salads, hamburgers, tacos, and in many other dishes....
varieties, spinach

Spinach

Spinach is a flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae. It is native to central and southwestern Asia. It is an annual plant , which grows to a height of up to 30 cm....
, or rocket (arugula). The salad leaves are cut or torn into bite-sized fragments and tossed together (called a tossed salad), or may be placed in a predetermined arrangement.

Other common vegetables in a green salad include cucumber

Cucumber

The cucumber is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash , and in the same genus as the muskmelon....
s, peppers

Bell pepper

Bell pepper is a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum. Cultivars of the plant produce fruits in different colors, including red, yellow, green and orange....
, mushroom

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi that have a stem , a cap , and gills on the unde...
s, onion

Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
s, spring onion

Scallion

A scallion, also commonly known as spring onion, green onion, or salad onion, is associated with various members of the genus Allium that lack a fully-developed bulb....
s, red onion

Red onion

Red onions, sometimes called purple onions, are Cultivar of the onion with purplish red skin and white flesh tinged with red.These onions tend to be medium to large in size and have a mild to sweet flavor....
s, avocado

Avocado

The avocado , also known as palta or aguacate , butter pear or alligator pear, is a tree native to Mexico, South America and Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae....
, carrot

Carrot

The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot....
s, celery

Celery

Apium graveolens is a plant species in the family Apiaceae commonly known as celery or celeriac depending on whether the petioles or roots are eaten....
, and radish

Radish

The radish is an Eating root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman Empire times. They are grown and consumed throughout the world....
es. Other ingredients such as tomato

Tomato

The Tomato is an herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins Nicotiana, potatoes, aubergine , chilli peppers, and the poisonous Atropa belladonna....
es, pasta

Pasta

Artichoke

A globe artichoke is a partially edible perennial thistle originating in southern Europe around the Mediterranean.Artichoke may also refer to:...
, heart of palm

Heart of palm

Heart of palm, also called palm heart, burglar's thigh, palmito, chonta or swamp cabbage, is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees ....
, roasted red bell peppers

Bell pepper

Bell pepper is a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum. Cultivars of the plant produce fruits in different colors, including red, yellow, green and orange....
, cooked potatoes

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
, rice

Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
, sweetcorn

Sweetcorn

Sweet corn , also called indian corn, sweetcorn, sugar corn, pole corn, or simply corn, is a variety of maize with a high sugar content....
, green bean

Green bean

Green beans , French beans or runner beans , also called squeaky beans, are the unripe fruit of any kind of bean, including the yardlong bean, the hyacinth bean, the winged bean, and especially the common bean , whose pods are also usually called string beans in the northeastern United States, but can also go by snap b...
s, black beans

Common bean

The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, is an herbaceous annual plant domesticated independently in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes, and now grown worldwide for its edible bean, popular both dry and as a green bean....
, crouton

Crouton

A crouton is a small piece of saut?ed or rebaked bread, often cubed and seasoned, that is used to add texture and flavor to salads, notably the Caesar salad, and as an accompaniment to soups, while some prefer to eat them alone, as a snack food....
s, cheese

Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
s, meat

Meat

Bacon

Bacon is a cut of meat taken from the sides, belly, or back of a pig, then Curing , Smoking , or both. Meat from other animals, such as beef, Lamb and mutton, chicken, goat, or turkey , may also be cut, cured, or otherwise prepared to resemble bacon....
, chicken

Chicken

The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
), or fish

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
(e.g. tuna

Tuna

Tuna are several species of ocean-dwelling fish in the family Scombridae, mostly in the genus Thunnus. Tunas are fast swimmers?they have been clocked at 70 km/h ?and include several species that are warm-blooded....
, shrimp

Shrimp

Shrimp are swimming, Decapoda crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh water and seawater. Adult shrimp are Filter feeder benthic animals living close to the bottom....
) are sometimes added to salads.

Entree salads may contain chicken, either grilled or fried chicken fingers

Chicken fingers

Chicken Fingers , which first became popular around1986, are a style of fried chicken that does not include any bones or skin.Chicken fingers are prepared by dipping chicken meat in a breading mixture and then Deep frying them....
on top of the salad, or seafood in the form of grilled or fried shrimp, or a fish steak, such as tuna

Tuna

Mahi-mahi

The mahi-mahi also known as dolphin-fish or dorado, calitos, maverikos, or lampuki are surface-dwelling ray-finned fish fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide....
, or salmon

Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout,the difference is often attributed to the migratory life of the salmon as compared to the residential behaviour of trout, this holds true for the Atlantic salmon....
. Steak such as sirloin can be grilled and sliced and placed upon the salad. Caesar salad

Caesar salad

A typical Caesar salad comprises romaine lettuce and croutons dressed with parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, egg , Worcestershire sauce, and black pepper originally prepared tableside....
, Chef salad

Chef salad

The Chef Salad was likely created by chef Victor Seydoux at the Hotel Buffalo, a Statler Hotel in Buffalo, New York. Chef Seydoux first learned his craft in Montreux, Switzerland and continued his studies in France and England before coming to work in the United States....
, Cobb salad

Cobb salad

The Cobb salad is a garden salad and was a signature menu item of the legendary Brown Derby, a landmark restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
, Greek salad

Greek salad

Greek salad , 'country/village salad', is a common component of a traditional Greek meal. It is one of the most popular salads, especially during the summer months, in Greece and Cyprus as it is light, refreshing, and easy to make....
and Michigan salad

Michigan salad

A Michigan salad is a type of green salad popular at restaurants in the Detroit, Michigan area and other parts of Michigan. It is typically topped with dried fruit cherry, bleu cheese, and a vinaigrette salad dressing....
are types of green salad.

Dressings

The concept of salad dressing varies across cultures. There are many commonly used salad dressings in North America. Traditional dressings in southern Europe are vinaigrette

Vinaigrette

The word vinaigrette or vinegarette can refer to:* Vinaigrette , the salad dressing or sauce.* A small container with a perforated top, used to contain an aromatic substance such as vinegar or smelling salts, especially popular for women in Victorian era to combat the aroma from the waste products common in cities....
s, while mayonnaise is predominant in eastern European countries and Russia. In Denmark dressings are often based on crème fraîche

Crème fraîche

Cr?me fra?che , of France origin, is the Western European counterpart to the soured cream more traditional to Western Europe and Anglophone cultures....
. In China

Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
, where Western salad is a recent adoption from Western cuisine, the term salad dressing refers to mayonnaise or mayonnaise-based dressings. Many light edible oils are used as salad dressings, including olive oil

Olive oil

Olive oil is a fruit oil obtained from the olive , a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. The wild olive tree originated in Anatolia and spread from there as far as southern Africa, Australia, Japan and China....
, corn oil

Corn oil

Corn oil is oil extracted from the cereal germ of corn . Its main use is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes refined corn oil a valuable frying oil....
, soybean oil, safflower oil, etc.

Balsamic vinegar
Balsamic vinegar

Balsamic vinegar is a condiment originating from Italy.The original traditional product, made from a reduction of cooked grape juice and not a vinegar in the usual sense, has been made in Modena and Reggio Emilia since the Middle Ages....
Caesar dressing
Bleu cheese
Blue cheese dressing

Blue cheese dressing is a popular salad dressing and dip in the United States. It is usually made from mayonnaise, sour cream, blue cheese, milk, vinegar, onion powder, mustard seed, and garlic powder....
Louis dressing
Louis dressing

Louis dressing is a salad dressing based on mayonnaise, to which has been added red chili pepper sauce, minced green onion, and minced green chili peppers....
Ranch dressing
Ranch dressing

Ranch dressing is a condiment made of buttermilk or sour cream, mayonnaise, minced Scallion, garlic powder, and other seasonings mixed into a sauce....
Russian dressing
Russian dressing

Russian dressing is an United States tomato-based salad dressing noted for its pungency. It is typically a clear and glistening bright orange-red or burnt red in color....
Honey Dijon
Thousand Island dressing
Thousand Island dressing

Thousand Island dressing is a salad dressing , commonly made of mayonnaise, ketchup, tobasco and finely chopped vegetables, most often Pickled cucumbers, onions, bell peppers, and green olives; chopped hard-boiled Egg is also common....
French dressing
French dressing

French Dressing is a term used in UK and the United States in particular, to describe the most common salad dressing in France: the vinaigrette, and its many variations....
Italian dressing
Italian dressing

Italian dressing in Cuisine of the United States is a vinaigrette-type salad dressing consisting of an emulsion of water, Vegetable oil, vinegar or lemon juice, black pepper, minced onions and bell peppers, often sugar, or high fructose corn syrup, and a variety of herbs and spices including garlic, oregano, fennel, salt and dill....
Vinaigrette
Vinaigrette

The word vinaigrette or vinegarette can refer to:* Vinaigrette , the salad dressing or sauce.* A small container with a perforated top, used to contain an aromatic substance such as vinegar or smelling salts, especially popular for women in Victorian era to combat the aroma from the waste products common in cities....
Wafu dressing
Wafu dressing

Wafu dressing is a vinaigrette-type salad dressing based on soy sauce, popular in Japan. The name literally means Japanese-style dressing.The standard wafu dressing consists of a mixture of Japanese soy sauce, rice vinegar and vegetable oil....
Tahini
Tahini

Tahini, tahine, tehina, or sesame paste is a paste of ground sesame seeds used in cooking. Middle Eastern tahini is made of husk, lightly roasted seeds....
Hummus
Hummus

Hummus is a Levantine cuisine dip or spread made from cooked, mashed chickpeas, blended with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic....

Garnishes

Popular salad garnishes are anchovies, bacon bits

Bacon bits

Bacon bits are a frequently used "topping" that enhances the flavor of salad or potatoes. They are a common element of salad bars. Bacon bits are made of either small, crumbled pieces of cooked bacon or textured vegetable protein artificially flavoured to resemble bacon....
(real or imitation), beetroot bell peppers, shredded carrot

Carrot

The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot....
s, cress

Cress

Cress may refer to:Plants* Garden cress, a leafy vegetable* Land cress, a biennial herb* Peppercress, a mustard* Rock cress, a brassicale...
, croutons, parsley

Parsley

Parsley is a bright green, biennial plant herb, also used as spice. It is very common in Middle Eastern cuisine, European cuisine, and American cuisine cooking....
, mushroom

Mushroom

Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
s, radish

Radish

The radish is an Eating root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman Empire times. They are grown and consumed throughout the world....
es, sunflower

Sunflower

The sunflower is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae and native to the Americas, with a large flowering head . The stem can grow as high as 3 meters , and the flower head can reach 30 cm in diameter with the "large" seeds....
seeds (shelled), surimi

Surimi

Surimi is a Japanese loan word referring to a food product intended to mimic the meat of lobster, crab, and other shellfish. It typically is made from white-fleshed fish that has been pulverized to a paste and attains a rubbery texture when cooked....
- artificial crab meat and cherry tomato

Tomato

Other types of salad

Salads that include ingredients other than fresh vegetables are:

Antipasto
Antipasto

Antipasto, or antipasti, means "before the meal" and is the traditional first course of a formal Italian cuisine. Traditional antipasto includes cured meats, olives, roasted garlic, pepperoncini, edible mushroom, anchovy, artichoke, various cheeses and peperone ....
salad
Bean salad
Bean salad

Bean salad, also called three bean salad, is mainly composed of cooked pole beans , cooked garbonzo beans, cooked kidney beans and sliced or diced fresh beet....
Caprese salad
Chef salad
Chef salad

The Chef Salad was likely created by chef Victor Seydoux at the Hotel Buffalo, a Statler Hotel in Buffalo, New York. Chef Seydoux first learned his craft in Montreux, Switzerland and continued his studies in France and England before coming to work in the United States....
Chicken salad
Chicken salad

Chicken salad is any salad that comprises chicken as a main ingredient. In Europe and Asia this may be complemented by any number of dressings, or indeed no dressing at all and the salad consituant can vary from traditional leaves and vegetables, pastas, cous cous to noodles or rice....
Chinese chicken salad
Chinese chicken salad

Chinese chicken salad, as its name suggests, is a salad with chicken flavoured by Chinese cuisine, popular in the United States. The Chinese influence comes from common Chinese-themed ingredients....
Coleslaw
Coleslaw

Coleslaw is a salad consisting primarily of shredded raw cabbage. It can also include shredded carrots.There are many variations of the recipe which include the addition of other ingredients, such as red cabbage, grated cheese, pineapple, or apple....
Congealed salad
Crab Louie salad
Crab Louie

Crab Louie salad, also known as Crab Louis Salad or the King of Salads, is a type of salad featuring crab meat. The original recipe dates back to the early 1900's and originates on the West Coast of the United States....
Egg salad
Egg salad

Egg salad is part of an Anglo-American tradition of salads involving a high-protein or high-carbohydrate food mixed with seasonings in the form of spices, herbs, and other foods, and bound with an Cooking oil-based dressing....
Eggplant salad
Fattoush
Fattoush

Fattoush is a Levantine salad made from several garden vegetables and toasted or fried pieces of pita bread. Fattoush salad allows cooks to use seasonal produce by mixing different vegetables and herbs according to taste, and also to make use of pitas that have gone stale....
Fruit salad
Fruit salad

Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, served either in their own juices or a syrup. In different forms fruit salad can be served as an appetizer, a side-salad, or a dessert....
Greek salad
Greek salad

Greek salad , 'country/village salad', is a common component of a traditional Greek meal. It is one of the most popular salads, especially during the summer months, in Greece and Cyprus as it is light, refreshing, and easy to make....
Ham salad
Ham salad

Ham salad is a traditional Anglo-American salad. It is related to chicken salad, egg salad, and tuna salad as well as starch based salads like potato salad, pasta salad, and pea salad....
Israeli salad
Israeli salad

Israeli salad is a chopped salad of finely diced tomato and cucumber.Israeli salad is usually dressed with fresh lemon juice and olive oil. Parsley and spring onions are sometimes added, but not lettuce....
Larb
Larb

Larb is a type of Lao cuisine meat salad. It is most often made with chicken, beef, duck, turkey, pork or even fish, flavored with fish sauce and Lime ....
Niçoise salad
Niçoise salad

Ni?oise salad , sometimes referred to as Salade ni?oise or insalata nizzarda, is a type of salad. As suggested by the name, it is a specialty of the region of Nice in France, and generally contains tomatoes, raw Capsicum, anchovy, garlic, and black olives , as well as green beans, tuna, new potatoes and hard-boiled eggs, served...
Panzanella
Panzanella

Panzanella or panmolle is a type of Cuisine of Italy originating in the Regions of Italy of Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Lazio. The dish is a bread salad popular in the summer months....
Pasta salad
Pasta Salad

Pasta salad is a dish prepared with one or more types of pasta, usually chilled, and most often tossed in a vinegar, oil or mayonnaise-based dressing....
Potato salad
Potato salad

Potato salad is a recipe made from potatoes, and varies throughout different regions and countries of the world.With respect to its place among the various individual menu courses served together as one meal, it is better classified as a side dish rather than a salad per se, as it generally accompanies the main course....
Russian salad
Russian salad

Russian salad or Salade russe also known as Salade Olivier is a salad composed of dicing potato, vegetables and sometimes meats bound in mayonnaise....
Salmagundi
Salmagundi

Salmagundi is a salad dish originating in the early 17th century England comprising cooked meats, seafood, vegetables, fruit, leaf vegetable, nut and Edible flowers and dressed with oil, vinegar and spices....
Shopska salad
Shopska salad

Shopska salad is a Shopi dish popular in Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Albania and the Czech Republic. It is made from tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, raw or roasted Capsicums , and sirene ....
Somen salad
Somen salad

is a Japanese cuisine type of noodle-based salad that is served cold. The salad is a dish based on its main ingredient, the somen noodle. Essentially, the salad consists of three main parts: the noodles, the vinegar sauce, and the garnish ....
Som tam
Som tam

Som tam or Som tum also known as Tam mak hoong is a spicy salad made from shredded unripened papaya originally from Laos and Lao-settled Isan region of northeastern Thailand....
G?i ngó sen - a Vietnamese salad
Tabouli
Tabouli

Tabbouleh is a Levantine cuisine Arab cuisine dish, often used as part of a mezze. Its primary ingredients are bulgur, finely chopped parsley, Mentha, tomato, scallion, and other herbs with lemon juice, olive oil and various seasonings, generally including black pepper and sometimes cinnamon and allspice....
Taco salad
Taco salad

The taco salad is a Mexico.The salad is a fried flour Flour tortilla shell stuffed with shredded iceberg lettuce and topped with diced tomato, shredded Cheddar cheese, sour cream, guacamole, and/or Salsa ....
Tuna salad
Tuna salad

Tuna salad is a blend of typically three main ingredients: tuna, Egg , and some form of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-substitute, such as mustard. The tuna used is usually pre-cooked, canned, and preserved with water or oil....
Waldorf salad
Waldorf salad

A Waldorf salad is a salad consisting of Julienning apple and celery, chopped walnuts, grapes, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing. It was first created around 1893 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City ....
Watergate salad
Watergate salad

Watergate salad is a sweet-tasting dessert salad made from combining pistachio-flavored instant pudding, whipped topping, crushed pineapple, and mini marshmallows....

Largest salad

On September 29, 2007, Pulpí

Pulpí

Pulp? is a municipality of Almer?a , in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain....
, in Almería

Almería (province)

Almer?a is a Provinces of Spain of southern Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Granada , Region of Murcia, and the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Almer?a....
, Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
tossed the world's largest salad, with 6,700kg (14,740lb) of lettuce, tomato, onion, pepper and olives, supervised by 20 cooks over 3 hours. A Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing an internationally recognized...
judge

Judge

A judge, or arbiter of justice, is a lead official who presides over a court of law,which is operated by the local, state, and/or federal government....
was present to confirm the new record. The salad was prepared in a container 18m (59ft) long and 4.8m (15.7ft) wide.