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Article: Seven Salads to Sink Your Teeth Into.(Recipe)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Salads can add variety and real spice to your diet while packing a nutritional wallop that's hard to beat.
The restorative powers of green salad have been celebrated since antiquity: "Eat cress and gain wit," advises a Greek proverb. The earliest salads were wild greens and herbs seasoned with salt; these were the first vegetables available in spring, which acted as a tonic after a dull winter diet.
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Generally, there are seven basic categories of salads:
1. Green Salads: Green salads are eaten at the beginning of a meal, with the entree, or after the main course. Most leafy vegetables that can be eaten raw are used: ...