Freewheeling Salads for Picnic Season

But really for eating in the car on a trip (or when you're stuck in traffic)

PLEASE NOTE: This issue of the newsletter required a correction to the barley/farro salad recipe, which omitted sliced fennel in the e-mailed version. The downloadable PDF recipe has been corrected, as well. Apologies for the inconvenience!

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IT’S ALMOST PICNIC SEASON! Which, let’s face it, means practically nothing to most of us. I haven’t attended an actual picnic in 10 years. 

But now that I live in a city—rather than in the pastoral part of the world I once occupied, where people have the lovely habit of keeping a blanket and/or folding chairs in their trunks in case they want to stop and enjoy the beautiful day and a sandwich—I will occasionally eat in my car with the windows rolled down while I’m stuck in traffic. 

I have also eaten more than a few takeout salads from the fancy salad takeout palace SweetGreen while sitting in their parking lot or in my unlit garage, partly because I love SweetGreen so much I can’t wait to dig in and partly because I have a dark side. 

Something big is going to happen during or after this picnic, believe me. (Florine Stettheimer’s 1918 Picnic at Bedford Hills, from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)