The Salad Bowl, a      Collection of Chaste and Unchaste Poems,  is like a digestive dish full of healthy ingredients.  The poems in this collection cover a wide range from the ennui and boredom of modern life to that of consummation of love. Some poems are mythical, drawing characters from Indian and European classics. The collection also includes some poems for children. The symbolic camouflage in which they are wrapped with bears testimony of De’s unique style.