Valerie Berry’s Posh French Beef Salad with Ravigote Dressing

Valerie is the multi-talented lady who styled all the food for Veggiestan, Snackistan and this book. An author herself, she possesses an encyclopaedic knowledge of food and I have come to regard her as a bit of a mentor. Her most enviable quality, however, is her sheer unflappability

As she is from over the Channel, it seemed only right to turn to her to inject a soupçon of French flair into the proceedings. This salad is very moreish; she writes thus of it:

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