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Cookery 101: Salad Greens
Posted By CindyP On April 21, 2011 @ 1:03 am In Blog,Cookery 101 | No Comments
“Roman emperors dined on dressed lettuce, and ordered served on plates of gold, radishes so thin that the gold gleamed through.” From Italy and early Greece, the custom of mixing greens with oils and herbs traveled to Spain and France where the people lovingly adopted it. When Catharine of Aragon went to England as the bride of Henry the IIX, it was necessary for the royal household to send abroad to get greens to please her accustomed taste. In time, the French and Spaniards introduced salads to America.
Thank goodness they did! Salads are very popular and come in so many different varieties–different greens, different dressings, different vegetables, different meats–the combination possibilities are endless in a greens-type of salad alone.
Use alone or combine one or more together
The Lettuce & Greens category is growing larger and larger here on Farm Bell. Here are just a few:
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