Strawberry and Spinach Salad

While an Easterner might call a strawberry and spinach salad “weirdo California,” a Westerner would find it as natural as berries and fish. The far-out combinations of the West are both natural and traditional to its own ecology. I first tasted a strawberry and spinach salad at the hands of a pioneer caterer and chef who was the first woman ever elected to the American Academy of Chefs and who had been wrastling up salads of this sort for a good fifty years before anyone heard of either Nou