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Because salads don't require cooking, a lot of people imagine that they don't require much consideration, either; they're seen as something to be just tossed haphazardly together with whatever ingredients are on hand. In fact, the making of a successful salad requires real thought. Salad is naked food, and thus the freshness and quality of its raw materials are at least as important as they would be for cooked food.