The Simplest Salad With the Biggest Following

It was the tail end of lunch, Thursday afternoon at John Gorham's Tasty n Alder in Portland, Ore., and the restaurant was still packed with guests eating (and drinking) impressively. Three food industry people happened to sit next to each other at the bar, and one by one, ordered the same thing: the radicchio salad, with shaved manchego, a six-minute egg, and bacon lardons. Why was a...