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This article deals with food. For the pop band of the same name see Salad (band).
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Salad is a mixture of foods, usually including vegetables or fruits, occasionally with a dressing or sauce, occasionally nuts or croutons and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta or cheese. Salad is often served as an appetizer before a larger meal.
The word "salad" comes from the French salade of the same meaning, which in turn is from the Latin salata, "salty", from sal, "salt", (See also sauce, salsa, sausage).
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The "green salad" or "garden salad" is most often composed of some vegetables, built up on a base of leaf vegetables such as one or more lettuce varieties, spinach, 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 cucumbers, peppers, mushrooms, onions, spring onions, red onions, carrots and radishes. Other ingredients such as tomatoes, pasta, olives, cooked potatoes, rice, green beans, croutons, cheeses, meat (e.g. bacon, chicken), or fish (e.g. tuna) are sometimes added to salads. In a restaurant, a small salad without meat is called a dinner salad.
A green salad is often served with a dressing. Some examples include:
The concept of salad dressing varies across cultures. There are many commonly used salad dressings in North America. Traditional dressings in southern Europe are vinaigrettes, while mayonnaise is predominant in eastern European countries and Russia. In Denmark dressings are often based on crème fraîche. In China, where Western salad is a recent adoption from Western cuisine, the term salad dressing (沙拉酱, shalajiang) tends to refer to mayonnaise or mayonnaise-based dressings.
Many light edible oils are used as salad dressings, including olive oil, corn oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, etc.
There are various vegetables and other fare that are often added to garden salads. Some of them are:
A Green Salad
Again, individual taste usually governs the choice of salad garnishes.
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Some salads are based on food items other than fresh vegetables:
The diarist John Evelyn wrote a book on salads, Acetaria: A Discourse on Sallets (1699), that describes the new salad greens like "sellery" (celery), coming out of Italy and the Netherlands.
On September 29, 2007, Pulpí, in Almería (province), Spain tossed the world\'s largest salad, with 6,700 kilograms (14,740 pounds) of lettuce, tomato, onion, pepper and olives, supervised by 20 cooks over 3 hours. A Guinness World Records judge was present to confirm the new record. The salad was prepared in a container 18m (59ft) long and 4.8m (15.7ft) wide.BBC NEWS, Spanish town in largest salad bid
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