When it came time to plan the menu for my grandma's 90th birthday, I went a little overboard. I prepped elaborate dishes that reminded us of her: vanilla cake, chocolate cake, and an old-school ...

This Easy Fruit Salad is bursting with juicy grapes, sweet tropical fruit, and fresh berries in every colorful bite. Tossed in a homemade citrusy dressing, it’s perfect for brunches, potlucks, or ...

When you look at a Jell-O salad, as a modern home cook, your first question might just be, "Why?" Or perhaps even, "How dare you?" Who in the world decided that it was a grand idea to shove as many ...

There was a time — about 65 years ago — when a jiggly fruit- or meat-filled gelatin dish was the centerpiece of nearly every Christmas table. When the sight of shrimp encased in clear jelly and ...

Gelatin salads used to be a mainstay on holiday tables, shaped into rings, molds, and towers in shades rarely found in food. They mixed sweet with savory, fruit with meats, and marshmallows with ...

Most references to classic American Jell-O salad will have you believing it’s a dinosaur, once popular and now extinct. A monstrous mishmash of seemingly disjointed ingredients ranging from crushed ...

What even defines a salad now, anyways? There are traditional, healthy salads made with leafy greens, but also pasta salads, chicken salads, and fruit salads. Who's to say we can't have dessert salad?

This throwback is good enough to replace the canned stuff. By Eric Kim In a 1952 “Better Homes and Gardens” recipe for “Lime Cheese Salad,” an otherworldly combination of vinegar, grated onion, ...

I grew up in an era when gelatin salads were considered, nutritionally speaking, the moral equivalent of vegetable salads, served with pride in place of fresh greens — though my grandmother would ...