Salade Niçoise

Ask six cooks for their salade niçoise recipe, and they will give you six different versions. Consult six or even ten cookery books on the subject, and you will read as many recipes. Some authorities, such as Larousse Gastronomique maintain that, with the possible exception of hard-boiled eggs, nothing cooked should go into the salad, particularly potatoes. Waverley Root, author of Food in France, argued in correspondence in Le Monde tha