As we continue our trek through championship dishes from the Alabama Journal and Montgomery Advertiser Cookbook Recipe Contest of 1983, it's time we start talking salads. We have a Montgomery woman who brought a very colorful salad to the table to take first place in that category.

Sadly, the only image I have have of it is in black and white, but I'm sure it was stunning.

Let me reintroduce you to Teresa Anderson, a fine cook in her day. But apparently that wasn't always the case. When she spoke to Advertiser reporter Teri Dowling about 42 years ago, Anderson admitted that at first she couldn't even boil an egg. Then she got married, had children, and life changed — though it did throw her for a loop when her family moved to Montgomery in 1981. In the process, Anderson lost the box that

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