As the intense heat of summer blasts its way through Virginia, temperatures here are already hovering on the edge of record-breaking three digits and it's not even July. This is the very kind of heat we moved away from South Georgia to escape. But contrary to what some of our friends back in Savannah seem to think, The Old Dominion is still The South, and we were well aware that it never has been immune to that infamous Deep South summer heat.
One lovely way that old Virginians once dealt with that heat at the table was Salmagundi, an elegant composed salad that was as beautiful to look at as it was delicious.
Composed salads like this one seem quite modern, and yet people are often surprised to learn that it was old when English Colonials first settled in this place and decided to call it "Virginia." The reason for that surprise is the popular supposition that the progress of cooking through history has been linear, advancing in a straight trajectory Read More