A treasury of main-course salad recipes is complemented by mix-and-match dressing ideas and complementary tips for enhancing healthy basic salads with exotic international flavors in accordance with favorite tastes.

Kids learn where their food comes from and how to make a good salad.

A "saladish" recipe is like a salad, and yet so much more. It starts with an unexpectedly wide range of ingredients, such as Japanese eggplants, broccoli rabe, shirataki noodles, Bosc pears, and chrysanthemum leaves. It emphasizes contrasting textures--toothsome, fluffy, crunchy, crispy, hefty. And marries contrasting flavors--rich, sharp, sweet, and salty. Toss all together and voila: an irresistible symphony that's at once healthy and utterly delicious....