500 Salads is a comprehensive compendium that features a wide array of healthy delights, including warm and chilled salads, fresh greens, simple pastas, and whole grains and healthful proteins. These tempting salads will be right for every occasion, whether as side dishes, fruity snacks, light lunches, or filling main meals. Cookbook author Susannah Blake offers recipes for such favorites as a classic caesar salad, an exotic fruit salad, and warm sweet-potato salad, and such mouth-watering dishes as potato, chorizo, and arugula salad, marinated vegetable carpaccio, rice salad with mozzarella and bell peppers, green bean salad with sesame and cilantro, orzo salad with vegetables and feta, two-tone coleslaw, and beef salad with thai basil. There are also delectable recipes for homemade dressings for the perfect finishing touch.