This salad makes the case for always having a jar or tin of tuna in your pantry.  I prefer the yellowfin tuna packed in olive oil.  You can add boiled eggs to this, arugula, mixed greens, tomatoes, capers, canned artichokes… use your imagination.  This was delicious and easy and so Italian!  And speaking of Italian, we all know Sophia Loren was a great Italian cook.  Did you know that both Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra said her kisses were a little… um, shall we say, garlicky?  For the record, I think it was extremely bad form for them to make such a remark.  And, I can’t help but think kissing Frank might have been like kissing an ash tray (not that I would have turned him down).  And Marlon hardly looked like he was as fresh as a summer breeze.  At any rate, I think Sophia was gorgeous and if her kisses were garlicky, then the antidote was to eat some garlic, drink some wine and kiss her back!  I love these pictures of Sophia giving Jayne Mansfield the side-eye as Jayne’s cleavage spilled all over the place.  Sophia loved to eat… she had the curves to prove it… and wouldn’t it have been fun to be at her table that night?

AND HERE’S GOOD OLD FRANK — THINK HIS BREATH SMELLED NICE?