French dress it very lightly with vegetable oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper with chopped parsley. A full meal from beginning to end. The grated raw carrot salad was somehow always part of the menu.

It's not often that I remember with complete certainty the first time I ate a dish, but I do recall my first Salad Niçoise. When I was a graduate student, I worked as a waitress at a French ...

and piling on vegetable toppings, generally makes for a nicely balanced plate. These French bread pizzas are a prime example. They start with a no-cook tomato sauce, which comes together in ...

This lentil salad is a staple easily found in French grocery-store deli cases ... I got lucky and was astonished to find a buffet of cold vegetable salads, hot roasted meats and, naturally ...

I’m thinking about how cooks scarred by, say, the canned beets or mushrooms of their youth can’t bring themselves to revisit the root vegetable ... It’s an herb salad with grains, not ...

Photo by Tom McCorkle; food styling by Gina Nistico/Both For The Washington Post These French bread pizzas are piled with a tri-color salad of arugula, radicchio and endive, for an easier and ...