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"La salada nissarda" in the Niçard dialect of the Occitan language

http://www.lexpress.fr/styles/saveurs/qu-est-ce-qu-une-vraie-salade-nicoise_1543564.html

Years later, Medecin was accused of corruption, fled to Uruguay, was extradited back to France, convicted, and served time in prison. He maintained widespread popularity in Nice.

Alice Waters

A 1979 variation by Pierre Franey is called Salade Niçoise aux Poires d'Avocat. Franey wrote, "I am convinced that had avocados been native to Provence they would have been an inevitable ingredient in the celebrated salad of that region,  the salad niçoise." This version also included mushrooms and both black and green olives.

Simon Hopkinson

According to Rowley Leigh, Medecin believed that salade niçoise "was a product of the sun and had to be vibrant with the crisp, sweet flavours of the vegetables of the Midi."

You could have some lettuce if you liked. Eggs were essential. So too were tomatoes – beautiful, sweet, rich-scented tomatoes from Provence – alongside cucumbers, peppers and onions in some form. You could put in raw, thinly sliced artichokes, so long as they were the tiny little spiky ones, too small to have a choke and trimmed of their leaves. Above all, the true salade Niçoise needed to be laced with the little black olives of the area and to be generously strewn with salted anchovy fillets."

In 1999, Pépin joined with Julia Child in a TV series, Jacques and Julia: Cooking at Home. Each prepared a salad they called "Near Nicoise". Child's version was a composed salad including tuna and anchovies canned in olive oil, and blanched green beans. Pépin's was a tossed salad including sauteed fresh tuna and potatoes.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/just-use-everything-1.278501

Rachael Ray

Mimi Sheraton responds "Salade Nicoise with fresh tuna is a travesty . . . if you like it, you are wrong!"

Claudia Roden is an advocate of innovation, who observed in 1984 that "There are not one or two or three versions of salade Nicoise — but dozens, depending on what is available."