but you don't need to use fancy cuts of meat or expensive seafood for the salad. Steaks that are easily sliced -- like boneless ribeye, flank, or skirt steak -- work best in a Cobb salad ...

Cobb salads are one of the most popular "composed" salads, which is a fancy way of saying its ingredients are arranged side by side or piled on top of one another, not tossed or mixed together.