Kitchen Garden

Grow a salad bar

Insipid salads are an unfortunate mainstay of far too many British pubs, cafes and restaurants. The situation is getting better – slowly – but the vast majority of salads still involve the same old sorry suspects: watery iceberg lettuce, a flavourless tomato (you know the type – pale, hard and chewy) and, if you’re lucky, a slice of cucumber. No wonder the salad bar is viewed with such contempt by so many!

If you want to create sensational salads, bursting with taste and in a rainbow

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