Brazilian chayote salad

Description

A wide ceramic bowl with a speckled cream glaze and a warm, toasty brown rim is heaped with neat cubes of cooked chayote, their pale celadon-green flesh glossy and almost translucent where the light catches the cut edges. Thin, curling ribbons of white onion wind through the pile, and a generous scattering of finely chopped flat-leaf parsley adds flecks of deep green, along with tiny specks of black pepper clinging to the dressed surfaces. The bowl sits on a folded linen napkin in natural oatmeal with a green stripe, on a honey-colored wooden table. Soft, warm daylight comes from behind, giving the salad a fresh, bright sheen, while the background blurs into a bunch of parsley, a wooden pepper mill and a glass cruet of golden olive oil, hinting at the simple dressing.

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