The Department of Salad

A human-made Shroomami, a charred broccolini–pepperoni collaboration, and how to stop arguing with the universe.

We’re just going to keep on doing what we do—plus a couple of salad-adjacent hors d’oeuvres, to celebrate whatever.

Two restrained but luscious salads that might help the world get back on track?

Perfect salads for eating in your dark winter man cave—or woman cave. White beans and chard. Potato and salami. Plus: Let's put crunchy lemon Parmesan bread crumbs on everything.

They’d be sad. Very sad.

Yes, you need one. No, it doesn't have to make your life a living hell.

Because patience is a virtue, but getting what you want when you want it is fabulous.

Also: Help yourself to some self-help masquerading as salad instruction.

Because we needed something grounding here at the Department of Salad—and thought you might, too.

Perfect for fancy tea sandwiches. Plus: A rainbow-colored dance party of a grain salad, full of crunchy chopped vegetables, fruit, and nuts. (And I have another bee in my bonnet.)

We have an easy recipe! Plus a simple, delicious dish celebrating autumn apples and FIVE years of the Department of Salad.

An Autumnal Seven-Layer with Tahini Cream. A Plate of Herby Greens and Persian Prizes.

Department of Salad favorite Hetty Lui McKinnon is back with a new cookbook, celebrating her flair for the form—and we have recipes.

An unpredictable kale salad full of pickled things, cheddar, and roasted squash. Blithely nonconformist skillet-roasted radicchio wedges with melted Taleggio cheese and prosciutto.

Three classics for free readers, two bold new recipes exclusively for subscribers. It's creamy dressing week!

One deep purple with plums and grapes, one entirely apple-focused, both rebels.

An autumn-leaning tour through peach, pear, and apple dishes from the Department of Salad archive— plus perfect walnut vinaigrette for everyone (and a lush blueberry balsamic just for subscribers).

Salads that turn overripe or overlooked produce into late-summer DRAMA.

Perfect salads for company (if you actually let people in your house) and block parties (if your neighborhood still believes in those sorts of things).

All the usual long-winded existential dread you've come to expect from your salad newsletter—and more! (A lonely goat, chummy donkeys, Turk's-cap Lilies, Calabrian peppers, etc.)