Bon Appetit Wednesday! National Salad Month

It’s National Salad Month! Time to break out those salad spinners, dicers, choppers, mincers and shredders and fix up a delicious ancient salad. With all of the focus on health and nutrition these days, you might assume that salads are a fairly modern creation, but you would be so wrong. Those wild and crazy ancient Romans were noshing on this chilled dish long ago. And so many of today’s delicious and nutritious salads are built on ancient ingredients. So, check out our compilation of ancient salads below, beginning with the granddaddy of them all, Columella, created in the first century CE!

• Columella: An Ancient Roman Salad

• Ancient Thai Rose Salad

• Watermelon and Feta Salad: Celebrate an Ancient Summer Fruit

• Nanny’s Grape Salad: Celebrate the Ancient Grape

• Rice, Barley and Gingered Adzuki