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Of course it was the illustrious Homer Simpson who said: “You don’t win friends with salad,” but we believe otherwise. A good, balanced salad with super-fresh ingredients and a lovely dressing will make everyone at the table happy. But how much do you know about salad and all its components? Take our quiz, and we’ll give you a few salad-related tips based on your score.
1. What type of lettuce is pictured?
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2. In recent years you may have noticed ‘living lettuce’ appearing in the supermarket – one or more lettuce heads still attached to their rootball, which keeps the lettuce fresh and crunchy for longer. This type of lettuce, grown on water in a greenhouse, is also called:
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3. If I want to make a classic vinaigrette dressing, what ratio of oil to vinegar do I use?
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4. Three of these tools come in handy when making a salad. Which tool will you most likely not be needing?
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5. A Salade Niçoise is a classic salad from the French city of Nice. Its most traditional version combines tomatoes, anchovies or tuna with hard-boiled eggs and Niçoise olives. What other ingredients are common additions around the world?
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6. What cheese would you use in a classic Greek salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and red onion?
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7. The Caesar salad was invented in the 1920s by an Italian restaurateur who operated restaurants in Mexico and the US. It’s the dressing that gives the salad its characteristic ‘oomph’, combining (in its original form) olive oil, lemon juice, egg yolk, garlic, mustard, parmesan and…
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8. Green papaya salad is part of Thai, Lao, Cambodian and Vietnamese cuisines, and combines raw papaya flavoured with five elements: sour (lime), hot (chili), sweet (palm sugar), salty and savoury (umami). What ingredient is responsible for the savoury?
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9. For a classic Salade Lyonnaise, you need bitter frisée lettuce, creamy mustard vinaigrette, a poached egg and lardons. What are lardons?
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10. Salads are a staple in health-obsessed Los Angeles, where chopped salads first emerged. If you order a salad bowl at a restaurant there, what toppings would probably be least popular?
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11. Invented in the 1950s, this sauce is the most popular salad dressing in the US. It has a base of buttermilk or cream, with green herbs, onion or garlic, and black pepper. What dressing are we talking about?
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12. What ingredient provides the delicious crunch in a Lebanese fattoush?
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13. What is the name of a famous Tuscan salad of peasant origins using re-soaked day-old bread?
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14. The Turkish and Azerbaijani ‘Shepherd’s Salad’ combines finely chopped ingredients with olive oil, salt and lemon juice. The finely chopped ingredients are tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, onion and…
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15. What is a wedge salad?
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