Insalata Mista

We usually serve a salad at the end of the meal in Italy. It is refreshing and cleanses the palate. At home we have a salad like this almost every day and our girls have learned how to dress it. I taught them the same way I learned it from my parents, using a proverb rather than a recipe. The proverb says you need four people: a wise person for the salt, a generous person for the extra-virgin olive oil, a stingy person for the red wine vinegar, and a patient person to toss — thirty-four tim