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Article: Chicken salad inspiration Simple or fancy Southern classic is a summer favorite
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 25, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 ...