Grated Carrots

Before I ever tasted my first plate of crudités, I had encountered grated carrots, tossed in salads with raw sunflower seeds and lots of alfalfa sprouts, in American health food restaurants.

Frankly, the carrots always seemed to me more appropriate as rabbit food than as part of a salad. As I later found out, there’s more to grating a carrot than most people think. If the carrots are grated too coarsely, they’ll take forever to chew, for man or rabbit, and if the carrots are grated