What is my favorite salad bowl?
When your greens are fresh and crisp, your salad dressing possesses the perfect balance of acid, oil and spices, you start to wonder about these things, or at least I do. If I am taking the salad to the table or placing it on a buffet, I prefer a wooden salad bowl. If I am worried about clean up hassle I use a white ceramic bowl. If I am tossing the salad in the kitchen and plating it up before serving then I prefer a spacious stainless steel bowl. I have two wooden salad bowls. The narra bowl pictured above is relatively new but its proportions and grain make it an instant favorite. About 18 inches in diameter and six inches in height, it can easily house a salad that feeds 12. I purchased it in Baguio at a store near the greens of the Baguio Country Club (sorry, I forgot the name) for about P1200. I was lucky enough to catch a batch of bowls that had just been given their first sanding and had not yet been finished in any way (no varnish or oils). In my opinion, unfinished bowls are
