This olive salad recipe that was a favorite of readers in the 1980s, reprinted many times. It makes enough to give as gifts. Makes 6 pints 3 cups carrots, sliced 3 cups cauliflowerettes 3 cups celery, ...

This recipe came to Mark Bittman from Lidia Bastianich, who first ate a salad of fennel, olives and minced whole lemon at a friend's house in Rome. “It's a classic Southern Italian combination,” she ...