Salad bowl

Salad bowls may be made of any of the usual materials used for tableware, including ceramics, metal, plastic, glass, or wood.

Salad bowls can also be made from renewable materials such as Poly-lactic Acid (PLA), wheat straw fiber and sugarcane bagasse.

This fashion was started by the restaurateur and food writer George Rector, who in 1936 wrote a column entitled "Salad Daze".

...Thirty years of sheer joy have oiled and polished and savored it until it is as distinguished an object as a 2,000-year-old Chinese shrine made of sandalwood.By that Christmas season, wooden salad bowls had become a fashionable gift item,[2] and by 1949, the cultural critic Russell Lynes was saying that a highbrow person "wouldn't dream of washing his salad bowl".

But it must be pointed out that the bowl, sooner or later, will develop imperceptible cracks, oil and food particles will inevitably collect in the cracks and become rancid.Rubbing garlic on the salad bowl has a long history: ...frott[er] le saladier avec de l'ail qu'on écrase avec une croûte de pain nommée Chapon.