VISUALIZE a salad. If you conjure a penitential bowl of cold lettuce—a bribe paid in roughage to gain access to the good part of the meal—then you haven’t tried kilt greens. Also known as killed lettuce, this unabashedly indulgent sort of salad hails from Appalachia. “It’s a warm bacon salad, or wilted greens,” said Shelley Cooper, the chef at Dancing Bear Appalachian Bistro in East Tennessee. “It’s just we call it kilt.”Though...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 27, 2018 16:52 UTC