1.   Another restorative entree is the wood-oven-roasted chicken cut up and served amid a Tuscan-style bread salad.

2.   Bread salad is a perfect example of old-fashioned home cooking at its best.

3.   A staple like New England clam chowder may be enhanced by a Tuscan bread salad with spring vegetables and oven-dried tomatoes topped with baked Ipswich chevre.

4.   Bread salad is a traditional way of making good use of stale bread.

5.   Bread salad was a dish born of necessity, and is a dandy way to use up stale bread.

6.   Bread salads were created to make stale bread palatable.

7.   Corn-bread salad is just a Texas twist on Tuscan bread salad, also a salvage operation for stale bread.

8.   I serve the chicken with a bread salad, made with the same herbs I use in the butter compound, plus lightly sauteed wild mushrooms and fresh tomato.

9.   Italian bread salad is quick to fix, with variations in the dressing to match your mood and time.

10.   Next it will be bread salads, known as panzanella, and savory bread puddings.