Zox Kitchen: January 23, 2014

Larry’s Spring Salad:

Beets, Pears, Avocados

And Watercress

My brother Larry loved to eat salad and knew it was one of my favorites, as well. So when I visited him for dinner several years ago, he went out of his way to prepare a special salad he knew I would enjoy—especially since I had not eaten greens for many months. This was because the source of water in the Colombian village I was visiting in Latin America was polluted. Short of dropping iodine tablets into the water to purify it—which also affected the flavor—you had to abstain from eating the greens altogether. Clean, pure water was just not easily accessible.