There's a dieting adage that goes something like this: God created the salad, but the Devil invented the dressing. Meaning that, as healthy as a salad can be, the wrong dressing can turn it into a fattening calorie bomb...

Most commercially available dressings have something “devilish” to them, so in the next few posts I’ll be sharing some of my “antidotes”: traditional dressings that have all the goodness without most of the unhealthy stuff!

Today, the classic French dressing. This one can be made with olive oil, but to my taste, a more neutral oil works better, such as rapeseed or even sunflower...