Black Rice and Winter Squash Salad

With a Brazil nut "pesto." Plus: Is the DOS trying to poison you? No.

THE SALAD I HAVE FOR YOU TODAY is a chef salad, by which I mean it’s from an Atlanta chef. So it’s a little more complex than what most of us put together when someone asks us to bring a salad to a cookout or a potluck.

But not much, and it’s probably more delicious and prettier than a potluck salad—unless the potluck we’re invited to is at Grant Achatz…