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When making a rice salad, few rules should apply

By Mark Bittman / The Bulletin
August 12, 2008

In all of American cooking, there is probably no term less meaningful than “salad.” I’m racking my brain for a way to narrow the definition, but the best I can do is a dictionary-like “mixture of food, usually cold or at room temperature, with some kind of....

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