GOING GREEN | C.Z. Guest's collection of Dodie Thayer lettuce ware in her Long Island home ILLUSTRATION: Douglas Friedman/Trunk Archive LETTUCE WARE first cast its spell on me the summer I was 6.

Q. What causes lettuce to flower, and why does it taste bitter after flowering? When an annual (or biennial) reaches the end of its life, it wants to reproduce.

The Lettuce That Outlasted Liz Truss Was Up Against Surprising Odds It did not appear to be refrigerated. By Hannah Docter-Loeb. Oct 20, 2022 2:56 PM. Photo illustration by Slate.

Lettuce is a versatile food, but most associate it with salads or a health-conscious substitute for bread.Americans ate nearly 26 pounds of lettuce in 2015, according to the Agricultural Marketing ...

Early in the fall, you may start finding a few more bugs in your leaf lettuce. Hillsides surrounding the lush lettuce crops are brown and dried, so insects, looking for greener pastures, find ...

Certain brands of fresh ready-to-eat salads that include chicken or ham may also contain lettuce contaminated with listeria, a potentially deadly bacteria, according to the US Department of ...

1. Consume lettuce every day: full of essential vitamins and minerals. Lettuce is a valuable source of vitamins and minerals critical to our well-being. It contains vitamin A, which supports eye ...

Today, the lettuce looked a little bruised, but it could still be incorporated into a healthy salad. Sadly, Liz Truss serves no such useful purpose. At 1:30 p.m. London time, ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! I hope everyone has survived the sweltering heat of this week in late June. I ...

A head of iceberg lettuce bought for 68 cents outlasted British PM Liz Truss as part of a prank set up by the Daily Star tabloid, which launched a live feed last week showing the vegetable sitting ...

In a TikTok video from May, a 21-year-old woman in London shoves a clump of lettuce leaves into a Superman mug, steeps them in hot water (with a peppermint tea bag, for taste) and drinks it ...

Illustration: Cathy Wilcox. Nevertheless, I struggle on, mumbling in foreign tongues, to find some fish to spread on my toast and lettuce. I usually settle for any old tin of sardines and as I ...