Vegetable Salads

Most of us forget the delights of a simple salad made with a single vegetable, such as carrots, beets, or mushrooms.

In France, these vegetable salads are often served together, sometimes as many as seven different ones on the same plate. Called a plate of crudités, it is deliciously light and satisfying and has nothing to do with the carrot or celery sticks that most Americans associat