THE HISTORY OF THE SALAD

The letuce was mixed with other kind of vegetables until de ancient romans. Every part of the world had mixed this kind of food with product of each country. In Europe and in Eastern countries are ancient recipes. In fact, the word derives from the Latin word salad salt. The salads were part of the diet of the Greeks, who added all kinds of spices, nuts, cheese and honey. During the seventeenth and eighteenth century French and Italian chefs into fashion this culinary practice across Europe. The raw leaves of different types of lettuce are usually based more on salads. This vegetable is already known to the Egyptians, who mixed it with salt and oil, was appreciated by the Greeks and Romans. "hierba salata" was to, one of the names of this kind of food