The Salad Julia Child Taught Me
Salad Nicoise has everything you’re craving right now.
When I was in my 20s, in a thrift store I found an old cookbook called, The French Chef Cookbook by Julia Child. It was published in 1968, had a retro red hardcover, the recipes looked good, the black and white photos were hilarious and it cost a $1.00. But the clincher of the deal? I found the recipe for Salade Nicoise — the famous French salad I’d fallen in love with at a cafe in Paris.
Yes — some people fall in love with people in Paris — for me — it was a salad.
Little did I know then, but buying that little red book brought me into a time machine with one of the best cooks on Earth.
I knew a little bit about Julia Child, mainly from the Saturday Night Live parody skit where Dan Akroyd plays Julia Child on her television show.
And the pictures within her book showed she was a character:
I especially love the massive spoon!
