Salade Nicoise

Just the mention of salade niçoise evokes long, lazy lunches at cafés overlooking the sea on the French Riviera—lunches that are simply this salad, a long chewy baguette, and a bottle of chilled rosé.

Purists in Nice insist that a salade niçoise be served on a round or oval dish, not in a bowl, and consist only of raw vegetables, and no vinegar in the dressing. Our friend Julia Child, long a part-time resident of France, cannot conceive of this salad without each ingre