‘Microchopping’ influencers have turned chopped salads into an Instagram art – and it’s a salve for my anxious mind
‘The satisfaction of seeing large, unruly vegetables transform into perfect cubes, or leafy greens evolve into confetti ribbons, is on par, for me, with a perfectly organized closet.’‘The satisfaction of seeing large, unruly vegetables transform into perfect cubes, or leafy greens evolve into confetti ribbons, is on par, for me, with a perfectly organized closet.’went to culinary school, worked as a line cook, then became a mother.
There’s a long history of these types of salads, starting, by various accounts, in 1950s Hollywood, where Jean Leon, the owner of La Scala, “invented” the chopped salad, allegedly to ward against stars, clad in evening gowns and tuxedos, staining themselves with an errant leaf or misguided flip of dressing.
Ben-Ishay seemingly spends hours every day by her cutting board, a cleaver-like knife in one hand, a bench scraper in the other, making salads so tiny they can be spooned up with a tortilla chip, her preferred salad vehicle. She’s so committed to the chop that she’ll even chop microgreens, which are, existentially, micro already. And she’s quick to use an abbreviation – “cukes” instead of cucumbers, “nooch” instead of nutritional yeast.
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