Me and this salad go way back.
In 2007 — you know, back in the days when I imagine that all of our conversations might have gone “What should we do today?” “Oh, I don’t know,
anything we want.” — I had this salad at the then new-ish
Spotted Pig in the West Village and attempted to recreate it. It didn’t go well and because I was as mature then as I am now, I had a tantrum and didn’t get back to it until 2009, at which point I made a
roasted carrot dish with a bit of cumin and topped it with avocado slices that had been tossed with some lemon and everyone was happy. However, in 2011, Jean-Georges Vongerichten published a book of
his homecooking favorites including this salad, which is also on the menu at
ABC Kitchen and in 2012, April Bloomfield included the recipe in
her first cookbook and I’ve thought it might be nice to circle back to these more complexly spiced and textured versions.
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