Tahini & Apricot Chopped Salad

Have you ever had apricot leather? Not the thin, just-tastes-sweet fruit rollup kind. What I’m talking about is the chewy kind that almost bites back. It comes from Syria, wrapped in crinkly cellophane with an illustration of plump apricots on the filigreed label. Inside, the sheet of apricot paste is thick, sweet, tangy, and slightly slippery from the thin coating of olive oil that prevents it from sticking to its fabulous, translucent-orange self. It’s one of my favorite tastes on the pla