Healthy Salad
Whether you
are on diet or want to give a hale and
hearty start to your meal salad is something which most of us eat daily.
Food historians tell us salads were enjoyed by ancient Romans and Greeks. As
time progressed, salads become more complicated.
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ecipes varied according to place and time. Dinner salads, as
we know them today,were popular with Renaissance folks. Composed salads pull
together with layers of ingredients were enjoyed in the 18th century.
The Romans and ancient Greeks are mixed greens with dressing. The basic for the
word salad is ‘sal’ , meaning salt. This
was chosen for the reason that in ancient times Greeks and Romans did not use
the world “salad,” they enjoyed an assortment of dishes with raw vegetables
dressed with vinegar, oil, and herbs. The medical practitioners Hippocrates and
Galen believed that raw vegetable easily slipped through the system and did not
create hindrance for what followed; consequently they should be served first.
At the end of the 19th century the home economics movement took
hold. Proponents of this new science were obsessed with control. They
considered tossed plates of mixed green “messy” and eschewed them in favor of
“orderly presentation.” Salads items were painstakingly separated, organized.
And presented. Eventually, the hold of
domestic science relaxed and tossed salads once again found their way on
tables. Tossed salads regained favor. Today, salad range from the uninspired
classic” lettuce wedge, tomato & cucumber doused with dressing to
tantalizing.