Salata, A Build-Your-Own Salad Restaurant, Opens In Santa Ana

Salads get a bad rap. It's the name: salad. We tend to associate the word with lettuce, usually iceberg, which is flavorless, bland–the antithesis of a steak. For those on a diet, salad is punishment. But perhaps the comedian John Pinette put it...

This week, I’m making the case for salads. These will not help you achieve your ideal summer bod, but they will make the most of some very good produce. Morning glory salad at Jitlada My favorite salad in all of Los Angeles is deep-fried. This...

I like to think of salads as playgrounds for my favorite dressings. Sharp shallot vinaigrette, creamy Blue cheese and punchy, salty Caesar. Most of the time I lean toward a wedge. Cobbs are fun. Caesar is always welcome. This week’s...

If you are like most readers of The Times’ Food pages, you probably read Russ Parsons’ article on rice salad last weekend. You may have even saved that great-sounding recipe for cucumber-yogurt rice salad to your Evernote. But did you also wonder...

Can you still call a dish that's half fried chicken a salad? Probably not. But who cares? This, ladies and gents, is the salad you want to eat when you want to say you ate a salad, but you were actually craving something fried and something...