What defines a salad, anyway? Certainly not lettuce, because potato salad, pasta salad, and fruit salad are all most definitely salads. I was going to say a salad is a cold bowl of "plant matter", which is broad enough to encompass lettuce, fruit, potatoes, and even arguably pasta. But what about tuna and chicken salad? Scratch that. So, is the dressing the only thing that defines a salad? It must be, because that's the only uniting factor in all these dishes we like to call salads. Of course, there is probably a salad out there that doesn't have a dressing, but at the moment I can't seem to think of one. So we'll go with that. A cold bowl of something with a dressing = a salad. Whatever the official definition, I think even Webster would agree that this is most definitely a salad, despite the lack of lettuce. Ripe cherry tomatoes, seedless cucumber, thinly sliced red onion, fresh oregano, and a generous sprinkle of crumbled feta cheese, piled into a bowl and tossed with red wine

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