Chinese chicken salad often presume a bound salad with chopped vegetables and mayonnaise, typically without lettuce. For example, "The Settlement Cookbook" by Mrs. Simon Kander, published as early as 1910, includes a simple "Lettuce salad" with chopped onion and French or German dressing; but, no Chinese, Asian or Oriental salad of any kind. Similar bound chicken salads were found in "Joy of Cooking" as of the 1974 editions (first published as of 1931). It was by 1950s that main course type salads started to appear in books like "Better Homes & Gardens, New Cook Book"; whereas, that often included Caesar salad along with
Greek salad cabbage salad dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic), "pantzarosalata" (boiled and sliced beetroots, sometimes with beet greens as well, dressed with olive oil and red wine vinegar), "roka") salad (arugula dressed with olive oil and red wine vinegar or lemon juice, possibly including anchovies), "patatosalata" (potato salad with olive oil, finely sliced onions, lemon juice or vinegar), "revithosalata" (chickpea salad), and "maintanouri" (parsley salad, usually used as a condiment). "Cypriot salad;", native to the island of Cyprus, consists of finely chopped tomatoes, capers, cucumbers, onions, flat-leaf parsley, feta cheese, dressed with olive oil and lemon or red wine