Raw fennel sliced fine in a food processor makes a refreshing salad, especially if seasoned with olive and white truffle oils and shavings of aged Parmesan.

Zabb's labbs, salads of minced meat, onions and herbs seasoned with toasted and ground jasmine rice, had a deep, smoky flavor.

Good ways to start are the brightly seasoned salad of octopus, fennel and arugula in citrus dressing; the baked-eggplant-and-mozzarella sandwich, and the tripe and barlotti bean stewed in fresh tomato sauce.

A colorful and tasty accompaniment is a broccoli-and-avocado salad seasoned with a homemade garlic vinaigrette.

Leftover green salad seasoned with a basic vinaigrette dressing is usually too limp and unappetizing to serve again.

The radish is eaten as a fresh salad often seasoned with either salt and pepper or chaat masala.

Favorites among a wide range of dishes include the subtly seasoned salads, nam and yum nurr, tom kha kai (a zesty soup) and silver noodle salad.

Insalata Caprese (salad in the style of Capri) is a simple salad, made of sliced fresh buffalo mozzarella, tomatoes and basil, seasoned with salt, and olive oil.

And while the lunch included artfully seasoned salads, spicy merguez sausages and perfectly cooked lemon chicken, the service was perfunctory at best.

Kosambari (seasoned salad of lentils)