Russian Salad

Like Italian eggs and Irish stew, Russian salad has become a Parsi standard. It also appears in modern Persian cooking as Salade Olivier. This is about as close to salad as Parsis of the previous generation ever wanted to come. It’s a delicious combination of cubed potatoes, beets, carrots, peas, and green beans coated in a mustardy mayonnaise, always homemade. In my aunt Mani’s house in Ootacamund, Russian salad would inevitably accompany a salted cut of meat known as “hump,” which resembl