NP - BUT John Waters

[Charles Albert]

*The 2019 data, released in September, actually show lettuce heads doing
slightly better against lettuce leaves than in 2017 and 2018 (ahead by 0.3
pounds instead of 0.1). Perhaps New Yorker magazine food correspondent
Helen Rosner’s August 2018 manifesto
<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/kitchen-notes/its-time-to-admit-that-iceberg-is-a-superior-lettuce>,
“It’s Time to Admit That Iceberg Is a Superior Lettuce,” turned the tide.*

*Still, it’s been quite the comedown over the past three decades for
America’s lettuce, introduced by seed purveyor W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
<https://www.burpee.com/vegetables/lettuce/lettuce-iceberg-a-prod000747.html>
in
1894. The standard explanation is that the great American food awakening
that began in 1961 with the publication of Julia Child and Simone Beck’s
“Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and Craig Claiborne’s “The New York
Times Cookbook” led to an embrace of lettuces and other greens more
flavorful and less watery than what filmmaker John Waters once called
<https://books.google.com/books?id=ok4rAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=greens>
“the
polyester of greens.”*

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-13/america-has-lost-its-taste-for-iceberg-lettuce?sref=lMtIv2Vb



love,

cfa



<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon>
Virus-free.
www.avast.com
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link>
<#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>