If you have a choice between a green salad and a frisee salad, get the green salad.

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Even I love a green salad, but green salad every meal?

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Research also shows, if you pair a cheeseburger with a green salad, diners estimate the meal has fewer calories than the same cheeseburger served by itself.

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Mashed, shaped into batons and boiled, or even French fried, celery root can provide a winning accompaniment to a fresh green vegetable or salad and anything roasted or grilled.

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And Neil Perry's Rockpool is a perennial favorite for tasting menus that rival Tetsuya's in the creative use of local ingredients such as a salad of green lip abalone, mussel, clam, tea-smoked oysters and noodles with truffle oil and mushroom soy dressing.

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One day we ran to Green Turtle Cay for a casual lobster salad lunch on the patio of the Green Turtle Club.

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We'd flank the dish with sides of corn on the cob, a garlic-studded green such as escarole, a balsamic-slicked watercress salad and even some barbecued meat for the non-crab lovers of the family.

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In his hands, such a challenge hardly seems a chore: Dishes like a warm salad of mushroom and roasted squash, or a lettuce, green onion and cheese tart, are surprising and sustaining "proper food" in every sense.

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Soft-shell crab with a hazelnut salad, fried oysters with a green-chile-buttermilk dressing, a gin-and-tonic salmon with a subtle juniper aroma: these were creative combinations not often seen on New York menus.

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As it stands, the only options are a bland salad and a very tasty plate of blistered shishito peppers served with four sorts of salt: green tea, wasabi, hickory, and yuzu.

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