For his first Slow Food Fast contribution, Mr. Kahan shares a spare yet appealing salad recipe adapted from the menu at his wine-centric restaurant, Avec.

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There's no menu, each of the bar staff holding the recipe to 680 cocktails in his head.

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My cake recipe comes, naturally, from the "Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook, " and the whole thing goes really well with a glass of Beaumes de Venise.

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It is expected that some restaurants will offer the official menu as a special so that even diners eating out can partake, while the recipe developed for the night will be widely distributed in the hopes that most families eating at home will recreate the menu and share in the endeavor.

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