Salad Dressing & International Salads

The word "salad" comes to English from the French salade of the same meaning, itself an abbreviated form of the earlier Vulgar Latin herba salata (salted herb). from the Latin salata (salted), from sal (salt). In English, the word first appears as "salad" or "sallet" in the 14th century.

The first salad consisted of raw vegetables and was topped with dressing made of oil and salt.