50 Salads That Built My Table: Composed Recipes for Balance, Flavor, and Everyday Cooking Hardcover – March 26, 2026

Salads were never meant to sit quietly at the edge of the table. In 50 Salads That Built My Table, Mariana D’Andrea reimagines the salad as something complete — a composed dish built with intention, balance, and care. Organized around five ways of building — from everyday meals to seasonal cooking, from sustaining bowls to dishes designed for gathering — these 50 recipes offer a flexible approach to composing salads that feel both grounded and elevated. Each recipe is guided by balance: texture and contrast, brightness and depth, simplicity and structure.The ingredients are familiar, but the way they come together is what transforms them. This is not a book about following recipes exactly. It is about understanding how to build — and bringing something complete to the table. Read more