Dakos Salad with Yellow & Red Tomatoes is simply a version of “the World’s Best Salad!” It calls for dakos, a kind of rusk, or hard tack. In the Greek kitchen, there are many different kinds of rusks, or paximadia in Greek. Among these, the most famous is the round barley Cretan rusk, called Dakos, which in turn lends its name to an iconic Cretan and Greek salad, which has been voted a few years in a row as the World’s Best Salad. No wonder why…it’s a meal in itself, easy to make, filling and very nutritious. You’re going to love this version!