Any of various dishes consisting of foods, as meat, seafood, eggs, pasta, or fruit, prepared singly or combined, usually cut up, mixed with a dressing, and served cold: chicken salad; potato salad. |
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Salads
Salt was and is such an important ingredient in salad dressings that the very word salad is based on the Latin word for "salt." Vulgar Latin had a verb salare, "to salt," from Latin sal, "salt," and the past participial form of this verb, salata, "having been salted," came to mean "salad." The Vulgar Latin word passed into languages descending from it, such as Portuguese (salada) and Old Provençal (salada). Old French may have borrowed its word salade from Old Provencal. Medieval Latin also carried on the Vulgar Latin word in the form salata. 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, from Old French salade and Medieval Latin salata, is first recorded in a recipe book composed before 1399. Salt is of course an important ingredient of other foods and condiments besides salad dressings, as is evidenced by some other culinary word histories. The words sauce and salsa, borrowed into English from French and Spanish, respectively, both come ultimately from the Latin word salsus, meaning "salted." Another derivative of this word was the Late Latin adjective salsicius, "prepared by salting," which eventually gave us the word sausage. Do you have a website about salads which isn't listed with other known websites? Make it Known! Send us an email at info@known.com with your website information and we'll be happy to "Make Your Website Known"! Search Known Websites
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