Five Reasons to Skip the Salad Bar

Quick to toss together, sturdy enough to withstand the commute to work, wholesome and highly creative, these lunchtime salad recipes slay the midday slump

COME NOON, those sad, sad salads await in their grab-and-go containers at the corner deli. Alternatively, you could waste precious minutes, lemming-like, in the lengthy line at the pick-and-mix bar, defeating the entire point of eating at your desk. But why? In the time it takes to walk to the salad bar and cool your heels in that queue—all for a hodgepodge of humdrum ingredients that hardly deserves the name salad—you can put together a vastly superior version at home to tote along to work with you. Try adding pickles or preserved lemon for a bright boost, or deploy scintillating spices such as Urfa biber pepper or sumac....