Salads: Beyond the Bowl: Extraordinary Recipes for Everyday Eating

I am a big fan of Ms. Fox, having purchased her previous book, "A Chicken in the Oven and Then Some." (2010) Her recipes are well-written, easy to follow and, most importantly, delicious! Every salad that I have made in this book, and I have made quite a few in the mere two weeks that I have owned the book, has been better than the last. To name a few, my family and I have enjoyed the escarole and mushroom salad with orange marmalade and sweet shallot vinaigrette, the potato salad with za'atar and chives, the warm orzo salad with sweet crab, shiitake mushrooms, corn and creme fraiche and the blueberries, feta and mint salad. The latter, although so simple to assemble, is a real showstopper of a salad in that the combination of blueberries, feta and mint, dressed lightly with very good olive oil, sea salt and cracked pepper, is so unusually refreshing. There are so many more recipes that I intend to try that I imagine that I will cook my way through the entire book.Beautiful color photographs accompany most of the recipes. At 170 pages, this cookbook should not intimidate any home cook. I am so thrilled with the accessibility of this book (i.e. not calling for too many specialty ingredients) and the resulting recipes that I am purchasing copies for Mother's Day and end-of-the-year teacher's gifts!!

I should have a shelf dedicated to just Mindy Fox's books! I own Olives & Oranges, The Craft of Baking, A Bird in the Oven and now Salads Beyond The Bowl. Ms. Fox creates flavor profiles that make my mouth sing. In this book, which I've owned for less than a week, I have already made 3 dishes: the tangle of radicchio, belgian endive, chives & blue cheese; the celery root with manchego cheese and pistachio; and the egg salad with lemons, capers and chives. Three for three on the hit parade! Her writing is clear and concise. There is nothing left to wonder about the recipe as Ms. Fox fills in the blanks with detailed descriptions about the preparation and the ingredients. The ingredients are available at local markets or smaller specialty shops, easy enough to find online too if you are not lucky enough to have salted capers at your market, for example.Sometimes we just like to have a salad for dinner but don't want to settle for something light in the taste department. That's where this book is perfect as well. The preparations are not long and laborious but taste like you've been in the kitchen for hours! I know someone who bought the book today based on my recommendation alone, sight unseen! Go on now, put this in your shopping cart and don't think twice!

The recipe's look amazing and I bet they are! The problem for me is that most recipes call for specialized ingredients. I don't want to spend a fortune on ingredients for a salad or find a place in my tiny kitchen to store all the specialty ingredients that I will only use once (for making these salads). It's great that it offers suggestions on how to modify the recipes based on cost and/or availability but then that changes the recipe and flavor profile. I think it will make a really great gift for a foodie friend but not planning to keeping it for myself. Also bought another book at the same time (raising the salad bar) that I really like everything from so far. That one feels much more accessible for a wider audience.

I am a serious cook - often hosting 5 course, sit down dinner parties of around 16 guests. I look for extraordinary recipes that are delicious and can be prepped in advance. I have never included a traditional "green salad" as one of the courses, finding it boring. When I bought Mindy Fox's cookbook "Salads: beyond the bowl", I was thrilled to find unique, interesting, beautiful and easy recipes. One in particular is the Fennel and Orange Salad. I have now served it at least 6 times, and everyone loves it. It looks beautiful and it's incredibly delicious! When people ask me for my favorite salad recipe and I tell them that it's a fennel salad, they usually say they don't like fennel. Well I thought I didn't like fennel as well - people immediately think of licorice. So I stopped calling the salad a "fennel and orange salad", and I now refer to it as a "Sicilian Salad" and everyone LOVES it!I can't wait to try the other recipes in the book!

I thought this would be more salad-y. Like souped up strawberry and spinach, etc. It's not anywhere near that. It's much more creative. I wouldn't say that I would make every one of these, but I would probably make about 70% of them. I bought this for my cousin, who just eats salads and she loves it. All in all, I am happy with the purchase.

I'm a private chef, and this book has been a huge hit for me and the families I work for. Great creative ideas for good clean eating. As somebody who lives and dies on trying to proverbially reinvent the wheel with different salads everyday, Mindy made life easy for several months in the Hamptons this summer. Just open the book to a random page and get to work, you can't pick a dud. The food is simple, yet delicious. It isn't overwhelming like so many coffee table books wind up being, and isn't just a "popcorn" book either, with plenty of substance in the form of great flavor combinations, and creative and elegant use of ingredients.Can't wait to get my hands on her next project!

I bought this book for myself, and now I'm gifting it to several friends. The variety of recipes is wonderful. There are plenty of recipes that are simple and made with ingredients that any cook can find. And there are indeed recipes that call for harder to find ingredients, but with great substitutions suggested. I love how the chapters are divided: very simple salads to start; then gorgeous leafy sorts; potato, egg and pasta salads--upgraded in a modern way; and salads made with meat or fish that can serve as a satisfying meal. Photos are beautiful! Flavors are wonderful! And recipes work very well.

Beautiful pics. Recipes are fresh and interestingfor foodies. For me recipes were weird, to complicated for me and time consuming. If your a vegetarian there are to many meat recipes .