Big Salad! A Vittles Summer Cooking Supplement

Four recipes for main course salads by Boutheina B. Salem, Hetty Lui McKinnon, Nick Bramham and Paris Rosina.

Salad can include anything edible, and the spirit of Big Salad behind the Vittles Summer Recipe Supplement might be said to have arisen in the 17^th century ‘in the era of what was called the grand sallet’, as set out in the Oxford Companion to Food. In 1685 Robert May published fourteen grand sallet recipes, the first of which begins thus:

‘take a cold r…