A standard is a standard because it works. This salad celeb (made of apples, grapes, celery and walnuts) originated more than a century ago at New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, which gave it its name. Timeless classics, like the Waldorf salad, are also open to interpretation, and our riff has Granny Smiths, celery, grapes and pecans lightly tossed with a mayonnaise-based dressing on a ballad of baby lettuce.