Use them to dress salads or as marinades.

Choose oils that are high in omega-3 fatty acids for sautéing, baking, and dressing salads.

Balsamic vinegar, once available only around Modena, is now used to dress salads in Rome and season lamb in the Piedmont.

The resulting oil was pale yellow and considered suitable for dressing salads.

Use it to dress salads, and grains.

It is straightforward and dry but not bracing, as Champagne can be, which makes it a good partner to lightly dressed salads, olives, cured meats and fish.

Instead of vinegar, use lemon juice with oil and herbs to dress vegetables or salads.

Asian sesame paste is usually thinned with liquid or oil, then used to dress noodles, salads and vegetables.

Over the centuries, vinegar has been used for countless purposes: making pickles, killing weeds, cleaning coffee makers, polishing armor, and dressing salads.

Some chefs are even dressing salads with butter vinaigrette.