[3] For the first performance of Make a Salad, Knowles and her husband Dick Higgins utilised a pickle barrel to mix the ingredients as they lacked a big enough container.
[2] A salad was prepared in 90 minutes for up to 1,000 people by Knowles, her daughter Jessica Higgins, and volunteers on the upper level of the Chelsea Market Passage.
[2] The High Line salad was created from ingredients sourced from farms within a 60 mile radius of New York City.
Suddenly there was a sense of urgency: cameras shot up in the air; there was a scramble to find standing room on a picnic bench in order to get a better vantage.
Knowles and her assistants dumped the produce, then the dressing (a simple vinaigrette of olive oil, vinegar, and tarragon) over the railing, and the volunteers below shook the tarp to mix the salad, to cheers from the audience".