Salade Niçoise, Beautifully Bastardized

The nice people of Nice, France cannot stand the way the rest of the world bastardizes their signature salad. But what has come to be known stateside (and in England, and elsewhere) as Salade Niçoise is pretty damn good. So why not go with it? Even if it’s wrong, it took off for a reason.

READ: A gorgeous salade niçoise may be the perfect Olympics-watching platter

That said, we might as well pronounce it correctly. Don’t say “nee-swah”; it’s “nee-swahzz.”

Serves 4.

Ingredients

4 eggs

3/4 pound / 340 grams French green beans, trimmed

1 pound / 454 grams small red potatoes

1 Bibb or Boston lettuce, washed and torn