What is a crazy salad? It is of course the name of Nora Ephron’s 1972 collection of essays about women, which took its title from this line:
“I’m certain that fine women eat a crazy salad with their meat.”
— William Butler Yeats
But in the 1970s, it was also, according to a review of a new book called The Secret History of French Cooking, a “popular concoction of truffle, foie gras and vegetables by Michel Guérard, the creator of “cuisine minceur” — slimming cuisine.” And it’s the title of the painting featured above by the late Toronto artist Vera Fischer.
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