Cookbooks and salads are both the sum of many delicious, essential components working in harmony. Endless thanks and praise to the fresh folks who helped me make this book, which I hope will nourish and inspire you for many meals to come:
• John Stavropolous, my partner in all things in salad and in life, and the Stavropolous family
• My parents, Teresa and Nerio
• Timberly Stevens, arch recipe tester and kitchen ninja
• Vanessa Rees, photographer-stylist sensei, Roy Rogers for much appreciated coffee runs, and Marshall the cat, for ear scratching and belly rubs on demand (demanded from us, that is)
• The wise and quick-like-a-bunny team at Da Capo: my editor Renee Sedliar, Jonathan Sainsbury, Amber Morris, Katie Wilson, and Kevin Hanover
• My agent Marc Gerald and The Agency
And a cast of friends and colleagues who supported me during the twists and turns of this tour de salad: Isa Chandra Moskowitz (cookbook sisters 4 life), Ajit George (samurai!), Lizzie Stark (very different books but same dread deadline), George Locke, James Stuart, Jared Sorenson, Luke Crane, Dro, Creative Wednesdays Warriors (Dev, Laura, Sara), The Vegan Mashup (Betsy Carson, Toni Fiore, Miyoko Schinner), Adam Sobel and the Cinnamon Snail funky bunch, the Community Team @ Kickstarter (Cindy, Aurora, Niina, Callan, Jamie, John, Julio, George, Liz, Nicole, everyone else on the Community Team, and Sam [still working on that brogrammer salad]), and all the salad ninjas who believe that Salads Don’t Suck.