Salads

One thing I cannot bear to be without in the winter is fresh green salad. When green vegetables are at a premium or out of season altogether, and we eat meals that are heavy with meat and dried beans, we all need a little crunch in our lives.

Christmas is not a bad time of year for finding salads in the shops. Radicchio comes into its own just about now, and there is always the delicious frizzy chicory. The greengrocers’ shops only start to become dreary after the New Year -but that, I think, is when the human body most needs what they no longer have for sale.