Red Cabbage Salad

The humble (which means cheap) red or white cabbage hasn’t a lot of flavour in its raw state, but rather like pasta is a great facilitator. It does, however, have an inimitable texture when sliced very thin – crunchy and chewy at once, unlike the brittle celery or crunchy onion and carrot. The salads made with them are pretty easygoing – you can play around with ingredients (especially nuts and oils) and dressings, but they work best when restricted to, on the whole, northern-latitude ingre