I love salad and almost always order one when I eat out.

For me less is almost always more, and I am perfectly happy with a bit of lemon juice, salt and pepper, or a bit of olive oil and really good vinegar.

Sometimes, however, I like to try different types of dressing, especially when I am in a good restaurant that brags about their salads and dressing. Even then, however, I have the dressing on the side. You never know how someone will interpret "lightly dressed". One of my favorite surprises was a raspberry dressing on a fish salad. Yum!

Back in the early '60s I had a Caesar salad at the Turf Club at Caliente. It was the best I have ever had, before or since. They said it had been a house specialty ever since they used to make it for Caesar Romero back in the days when Caliente was a party scene for the Hollywood crowd.

The second best Caesar I ever had was at a hotel in Spokane of all places. You just never know.