Winter Chicories with Date & Anchovy Dressing by Odette Williams

The bold salty-sweet dressing and bitter chicories are flavor heavyweights; they stand up to and complement one another in this simple striking salad.

Photo: Graydon Herriott

Excerpted with permission from Simple Pasta: Pasta Made Easy. Life Made Better. by Odette Williams:

I’m captivated by winter chicories; Tardivo and Treviso—with their tangled, tightly bundled, elongated leaves—are varieties that look like sea creatures. Castelfranco radicchio, with its delicate pink-flecked leaves, looks painterly,…