Load salads with nuts, cheese, dried fruit and olive oil based dressing.

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And Neil Perry's Rockpool is a perennial favorite for tasting menus that rival Tetsuya's in the creative use of local ingredients such as a salad of green lip abalone, mussel, clam, tea-smoked oysters and noodles with truffle oil and mushroom soy dressing.

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"If you do a dressing with an olive oil that is too strong, you hide the other ingredients, " Mr. Ripert explained.

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The "heart" of his breakfast is a salad featuring finely chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley, coriander, bell peppers, arugula and mint, tossed with a dressing made with "the best olive oil you can find" mixed together with lemon juice, salt and pepper.

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The dish is drizzled with a dressing that sends up hits of grassy olive oil, chopped pistachios and herbs.

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Oil and water may be hard to mix, but blending inputs creates a good salad dressing.

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