Article: Chicken salad inspiration Simple or fancy Southern classic is a summer favorite

It's there when we're married and it's there when we die. It might have even been there at our mothers' baby showers.

If there's a buffet table or a picnic blanket spread out, chances are there's chicken salad on it.

With all its variations, chicken salad has become everything from a Thai thing to a Hawaiian thing. Stan Bracey, vice president of B & H Foods of Charlotte, N.C., says that in the North, chicken salad is usually a side item, and it's usually chunky. His line of Ruth's salads, which are sold all over the South ("from the Shenandoah Valley to the Florida line," says Bracey), includes a chicken salad that is smooth. "It's made to spread on a piece of bread as a sandwich," Bracey ...

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