Fresh Tomato and Cucumber Salad

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8 to 10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      15 min

Appears in
Cooking with the Firehouse Chef: The Food that Fuels New York’s Bravest

By Keith Young

Published 2005

  • About

Philly Scafuri, Chauffeur E-276, told me that you never put vinegar in a tomato salad. He says that none of the best restaurants in Manhattan ever add vinegar to their tomato salads. Philly also told me that you never ever put any kind of cheese on seafood; he says it’s unnatural. He says cows don’t swim in the ocean, so why would you put cheese on seafood? He also wants me to tell everyone who’s reading this book that he’s about 6