The Season of Chicken Salad ...

Five variations, in memoriam, the rants of old, a summer cocktail, books and viewing recs!

It is the season of chicken salad, one of the great deli mainstays and classic sandwiches (it’s Paul Simon’s favorite). Spring somehow lends itself to lunches, generally, with warming weather, graduations, wedding showers and so forth, and there may be no better course to prepare for a group of people than a great chicken salad.

My daughter and I visite…