DOS on Vacation: A Never Say Never Salad

And some salad-related gifts to give yourself

Me, enjoying some fruit salad in the pool—in my mind. (It’s Mrs. Charles Rogers in Acapulco in 1961, shot by Slim Aarons. Getty Images.)

I’M ON “VACATION.” I’m supposed to be lying by the pool, but I’m nowhere near a pool. I somehow ended up in the kitchen in Galax, Virginia, again, where I made a salad that I’d meant to avoid for the rest of my life, on…