A salad bowl is a large bowl with a wide top to make it convenient to toss or mix the salad.

Benguet is the "salad bowl" of the Philippines.

The salad bowl theory replaced the melting pot idea about the cultural and ethnic makeup of the United States. The melting pot idea was that America brought many different cultures and ethnicities together and "melted" or "blended" them all up into a uniquely America identity. However, the salad bowl theory says that the uniquely American identity is more like a mixture of cultures and ethnicities that retain their own individuality while also being part of something new, like vegetables in a salad.

I broke my mother's glass salad bowl.

A large salad bowl can hold an entire family's servings, but each person has a small salad bowl for his own serving.

This salad bowl was made from pottery, while most now are glass or plastic.

California is the salad bowl of the world, specifically Salinas Valley. So much crops are grown here promoters have labeled it the Salad Bowl of the World.