Wild Green Salad

A tangle of wild, succulent greens dressed with a pure, fragrant olive oil, this salad is unquestionably strong food with untamed tastes and pleasingly rough textures. Every country and region offers enticing possibilities, whether the greens are gathered from the Tuscan countryside, plucked from a California way-side, or picked in a high-desert meadow. I think the best salad I ever ate was served in Florence, in early spring. The menu listed radicchio di campo, or field chicory, and