Prepare this salad for many years, mainly for my husband (well, the male is salad in my opinion)), although my daughters do not eat it with less pleasure. Now about the name: in fact, in my cookbook it is called simply "the Diplomat", but then the salads with the same name, I found no less than 5, although they are completely different, and the original name save as the like. Found a similar salad in ingredients the cook Inna Buhovets called "Male whim", but! found 3 fundamental (for me)) differences - 1. onion marinated quite differently; 2. take a cucumber only pickled! 3. the layers in the salad are completely different queues, which greatly affects the taste when eating salad) Inny Have no step-by-step photo, which caused a lot of questions from chefs in the comments. I hope that my recipe will be useful for anyone from chefs in preparation for the new year holiday!