It is often true in cooking that the simplest dishes are in fact the hardest to perfect. A salad would appear a rather straightforward task. After careful testing in the Cook’s Illustrated test kitchen, we have uncovered many helpful tips. It turns out that salting cabbage before making coleslaw solves the problem of watery dressing and that it’s simply unnecessary to add oil in a thin stream to make a proper vinaigrette. In How to Make Salad, we bring you exhaustively tested recipes for favorites like Caesar salad, pasta salad, and potato salad. We investigate salads for every season … from vegetable and light, leafy salads, to seafood and chicken main course salads. How to Make Salad is one of a unique collection of beautifully hardbound, single topic cookbooks from the editors of Cook’s Illustrated, the publication legendary for perfecting a recipe through years of fanatical kitchen testing
