Can You Win Friends With Salad?

Crust - Shaved Fennel Salad
Crust – Shaved Fennel Salad

Really? People don’t like salads? I try to eat a salad a day, sometimes during both lunch and dinner1, not for any particular metaphysical reason, but because I love the taste of a good salad. Apparently I’m in a minority:

Can packaged produce get America out of its salad rut?

Despite decades of nagging to eat more leafy greens and colorful vegetables, the average American eats a salad at mealtime only about 36 times a year. That’s 20% less often than in 1985, when the average annual frequency was 45, according to market research firm NPD Group. Fewer than half of Americans—49%—ate at least one “leaf salad” at home in two weeks, compared with 75% who ate a potato dish and 81% who ate beef.

(click here to continue reading The Salad Is in the Bag: Marketers Hope Adding Veggies Will Get Americans to Eat More Packaged Greens – WSJ.com.)

Many salads I create are served accompanied with the Simpsons “You Don’t Win Friends With Salad” cha-cha (YouTube clip, or when this is taken down, someone else will upload a different version)

Green City Organic Farmers Market bounty
Green City Organic Farmers Market bounty

Tossed Salad - Maroush
Tossed Salad – Maroush

Salad Stuffed Tomato
Salad Stuffed Tomato

Kai Sushi Cucumber Salad
Kai Sushi Cucumber Salad

Microgreen Salad
Microgreen Salad

Marche May 2010 House Salad
Marche May 2010 House Salad

Arugula Salad
Arugula Salad

Sabana de Jitomates
Sabana de Jitomates

Tomato cucumber salad
Tomato cucumber salad

Steak, Salad and a splash of wine
Steak, Salad and a splash of wine

Endive Salad - Vivo
Endive Salad – Vivo

Press Here

Press Here

Spinach Salad
Spinach Salad

Pumpkin Curry Halibut
Pumpkin Curry Halibut

Suron Salad
Suron Salad

Dolmas -Cafe Suron
Dolmas -Cafe Suron

Beet Salad
Beet Salad


Footnotes:
  1. though of course, this doesn’t always happen []

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