Just consider, for starters, the Wikipedia definition of salad: “A salad is a dish consisting of a mixture of small pieces of food, usually vegetables or fruit. When it comes to salad, there’s a whole world of complexity. And then, I looked at the Wikipedia entry for salad, and discovered there’s a lot more to a salad than a bowl of greens with something tasty poured over…and something even tastier tossed in for both goodness and texture - we do love our crunch. Now, I’ll bet you thought you knew salad - I sure thought I did. Including our much loved standby - salad. And as I’ve demonstrated over the past three months, there’s a lot of great takeout available across Southern California. Though Colorado Boulevard in Old Pasadena, with its newly configured street parking and outdoor dining options, is making a noble attempt to return to normalcy, we’re still in a state of “you pays your money, and you takes you chance.” So, for a few more weeks at least, dining at home seems to be the safest of options - especially with all the binge-watching available on our several zillion TV channels. And so, going out to restaurants became a high-risk game of chicken once again. And then…COVID-19 came raging back, placing California, and Southern California in particular - in the unfortunate ranks of Florida, Texas and Arizona. And it almost - almost! - happened a few weeks ago. Well…I thought that by now, I’d be cranking out ecstatic columns about the return of dining in Southern California.
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