On the first day, a cook runs out of salad midway through service, and Ramsay threatens to fire him.
And, of course, a salad shot through with orange nasturtium flowers or stuffed squash flowers has visual impact as well as packing a tasty punch.
At Zoma, that well-spiced heap of lentil salad flecked through with onions and chilies ($4) isn't served on injera flatbread as it is elsewhere.
I'm a fan of the polytunnel, which allows me to eat pea shoots in March, radishes in April, early courgettes in June, and tender salad leaves through the winter.
Today, if you were to go to Ms. Fairchild's house for dinner looking for a quintessential California meal, she would serve chili-rubbed grilled chicken, a pot of long-simmered pinto beans and a large green salad shot through with avocado and orange, and seasoned with red wine vinaigrette.
The guy ate a salad all through my slide-deck.
And for more on Pop Salad, click through to Time.
Another specialty of the house is laab — chopped meat salad shot through with vinegar and toasty bits of rice meal.
As we took our seats, I wondered where'd we be if all the young people there me and my girl included who chase their salad days through the warm embrace of entertainment and commerce, applied that same passion to fixing some of our world's major problems.
