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Delicious and beautiful recipes from Martha Stewarts personal salad chef and the self-proclaimed Bob Ross of salads.

Offering more than 100 inspired recipes, recipe developer and food stylist Jess Damuck shares her passion for making truly delicious salads.Salad Freakencourages readers to discover and embrace their own salad obsessions. With the right recipes, you will want to eat salad for every meal and never get bored. By playfully combining color, texture, shape, and, of course, flavor, Damuck demonstrates how a little extra effort in the kitchen can be meditative, delicious, and fun. The recipessuch as her Citrus Breakfast Salad; Tea-Smoked Chicken and Bitter Greens Salad; Caesar Salad Pizza Salad; and Roasted Grapes, Ricotta, Croutons, and Endive Saladare meant to be hearty enough for a meal all year round but versatile enough to be incorporated into a larger menu. For Damuck, the perfect salad balances each bite, with something tart enough to twinge your cheeks, something sweet to balance out the bitter, and something with a little salty crunch to finish.Salad Freakis not just about eating to feel good; its about confidently combining flavors to create fresh, bright, and satisfying meals that you will want to make again and again.

Jess Damuckhas worked withMartha Stewartfor the past decade as a food editor, producer, food stylist, and personal salad maker, including on VH1sMartha and Snoops Potluck Dinner Party. Damuck has also worked atBonApptit, Food Network, Apartment Therapy, and Vox Creative, and has produced thousands of food-related web videos for clients. She does an Instagram show called #3hoursaladsand has a monthly menu and playlist newsletter calledSomething Fussy. Damuck recently worked as a culinary producer for a forthcoming Duff Goldman/Jim Henson Company production. Last year, she guest-starred with Martha in one of the final episodes of HBOsHigh Maintenance. She lives in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles.