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"To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist—the
problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil
one must put with one’s vinegar."
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author.
Prince Paul, in Vera, or The Nihilists, (1880).
Salad
The word salad may have come to us from Vulgar Latin, the
chiefly unrecorded common speech of the ancient Romans, which is distinguished
from standard literary, or Classical, Latin. The word takes its origin
from the fact that salt was and is an important ingredient of salad dressings.
So the Vulgar Latin “having been salted,” came to mean “salad.” The Vulgar
Latin word passed into languages descending from it, such as Portuguese
(salada). As in the case of so many culinary delights, the English borrowed
the word and probably the dish from the French. The Middle English word
salade, is first recorded in a recipe book composed before 1399.
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