Eastside Road, January 26, 2010—
TONIGHT'S DINNER was the same as yesterday's: slaw and Swiss steak. I dealt with the latter yesterday, so why not investigate the concept of slaw tonight? The word's simply Dutch for salad: sla. In English, though, slaw has a more specific connotation, seems to me: it involves shredded leaves and pickling or fermentation. A slaw is essentially Northern, as a green salad seems Mediterranean. As I said yesterday, this one involved cilantro, lime juice, red pepper and salt as well as the red-cabbage base. Crunch, salt, sweet cabbage, sour lime: a multisensate course.
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