Before celery juice, ginger shots, and fermented sodas, there was bacteria-fighting salad dressing.
Image courtesy of Claudia Keep.
Everyone knows salad is good for you—but beyond nutrient rich vegetables and leafy greens, the health-food favorite was once considered to be medicinal. Claudia Keep’s vinaigrette recipe keeps this tradition alive. In the fourth to fifth century, Roman legions didn’t just think of salad dressing as a way to add flavor to lettuce; they mixed apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, and plenty of garlic to combat harmful bacteria encountered during their conquests. Today, the dressing lives on for its sharp, flavorful palette. The painter tells Family Style: “This dressing was my late father Russ’ most infamous recipe. He always kept a container of it going, and I remember friends always asking him for the recipe, which he learned in France by way of Rome.”
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