This salad appears in the bilingual Vieilles Recettes de Cuisine Provençale, or Vieii Receto de Cousino Prouvençalo, by C. Chanot-Bullier, about the food of Provence. Still in print, it was originally self-published in 1966, but with its old-fashioned scarcity of measurements and limited instructions, it seems decades older. What make it special, one of…