Salad salad (a noodle-based salad). The sauce used to flavor a salad is commonly called a salad dressing; most salad dressings are based on either a mixture of oil and vinegar or a fermented milk product like kefir. Salads may be served at any point during a meal: The word "salad" comes from the French "salade" of the same meaning, from the Latin "salata" (salty), from "sal" (salt). In English, the word first appears as "salad" or "sallet" in the 14th century. Salt is associated with salad because vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times. The
The Great Salad Oil Swindle (approximately $1.2 billion in 2000 dollars). Miller won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting on the De Angelis story in the "Wall Street Journal", on which the book is based. Notes The Great Salad Oil Swindle The Great Salad Oil Swindle is a book by "Wall Street Journal" reporter Norman C. Miller about Tino De Angelis, a New Jersey-based wholesaler and commodities trader who bought and sold vegetable oil futures contracts. The book was published in 1965 by Coward McCann. In 1963, De Angelis was responsible for a major financial scam, attempting to corner the market for soybean