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A salad bowl is a bowl-shaped serving dish used to serve salads, especially tossed salads.
| The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.(April 2020) |
A salad bowl is a bowl-shaped serving dish used to serve salads, especially tossed salads.
Salad bowls may be made of any of the usual materials used for tableware, including ceramics, metal, plastic, glass, or wood. Salad bowls can also be made from renewable materials such as Poly-lactic Acid (PLA), wheat straw fiber and sugarcane bagasse. [1]
In the United States from the 1940s to the 1960s, wooden salad bowls were recommended by many cookbooks. This fashion was started by the restaurateur and food writer George Rector, who in 1936 wrote a column entitled "Salad Daze". In that column, he recommended using an unvarnished wooden salad bowl, purportedly a French tradition. He recommended rubbing garlic into it for a hint of garlic flavor, oiling it regularly, and never washing it: [2]
...age has everything to do with the bowl.... Wood, you see, is absorbent, and after you’ve been rubbing your bowl with garlic and anointing it with oil for some years, it will have acquired the patina of a Corinthian bronze and the personality of a 100-year-old brandy.
...Thirty years of sheer joy have oiled and polished and savored it until it is as distinguished an object as a 2,000-year-old Chinese shrine made of sandalwood.
By that Christmas season, wooden salad bowls had become a fashionable gift item, [2] and by 1949, the cultural critic Russell Lynes was saying that a highbrow person "wouldn't dream of washing his salad bowl". [4]
The wooden salad bowl was criticized soon thereafter, even if it had a finish:
The finish on cheap and badly made bowls will soon crack, the oil will seep into the crevices and eventually go rancid, and if garlic is rubbed frequently over the surface, the desirable faint undertone will soon become an objectionable odor that can only be described as a stench.
— Louis P. DeGouy (1945), "The Mixing of the Green" [5]
Large wooden salad bowls, we are so often and authoritatively told, become seasoned with constant use, particularly if they are never washed. But it must be pointed out that the bowl, sooner or later, will develop imperceptible cracks, oil and food particles will inevitably collect in the cracks and become rancid.
Rubbing garlic on the salad bowl has a long history:
...frott[er] le saladier avec de l'ail qu'on écrase avec une croûte de pain nommée Chapon.
rub the salad bowl with garlic crushed with a crust of bread called a "capon"— J. B. B. de Roquefort (1815) [7] , Histoire de la vie privée des françois
Even in the United States, this predates Rector: an American salad cookbook from 1926 recommends it in many recipes. [8]
Salad bowls may be of any shape and size, from very flat to very tall.
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