How salad has changed over the years
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 5:24 pm
We were having salad for lunch today and reminiscing how the concept of "salad"has changed over the years.
As a child salad a typical salad would consist of a leaf or two of butternut lettuce, a slice of tomato and a couple of slices of cucumber. If you were lucky there might be a slice of beetroot.
Today we had a red cabbage, carrot & apple coleslaw with a baby sorrel & frisée endive leaf salad and it didn,t seem at all unusual. I,m sure others can reflect how their menus have changed over the years as we,ve become a more cosmopolitan nation and left our wartime menus behind us.
And this summer we,ve been feasting on Home grown tomato, green bean & cucumber salads, My parents grew beans & tomatoes during the war and when I was a child but I never recall them being served mixed in a salad. My dad had very conservative tastes so perhaps it was just our household which never experimented much with what was available. I,ve read that it was Elizabeth David who encouraged the British to leave their culinary straitjackets behind them. We certainly never ate anything my dad would classify as "queer gear" in our household. Even mushrooms were regarded with the deepest suspicion!
As a child salad a typical salad would consist of a leaf or two of butternut lettuce, a slice of tomato and a couple of slices of cucumber. If you were lucky there might be a slice of beetroot.
Today we had a red cabbage, carrot & apple coleslaw with a baby sorrel & frisée endive leaf salad and it didn,t seem at all unusual. I,m sure others can reflect how their menus have changed over the years as we,ve become a more cosmopolitan nation and left our wartime menus behind us.
And this summer we,ve been feasting on Home grown tomato, green bean & cucumber salads, My parents grew beans & tomatoes during the war and when I was a child but I never recall them being served mixed in a salad. My dad had very conservative tastes so perhaps it was just our household which never experimented much with what was available. I,ve read that it was Elizabeth David who encouraged the British to leave their culinary straitjackets behind them. We certainly never ate anything my dad would classify as "queer gear" in our household. Even mushrooms were regarded with the deepest suspicion!