Recipe developer and food stylist Jess Damuck — Martha Stewart's personal salad chef — makes the case that a great salad is less about virtue and more about balance: something tart, something sweet, something with a salty crunch. More than 100 recipes stretch the definition of what a salad can be, from a Citrus Breakfast Salad to Caesar Salad Pizza Salad to Roasted Grapes, Ricotta, Croutons, and Endive. Hearty enough for a full meal, versatile enough for a larger spread.

With a foreword by Martha Stewart and full color photography throughout, it's a genuinely fun cookbook that makes eating salad feel less like discipline and more like a good idea.