Using energy equivalent to running a desktop computer for ten hours a day it can produce 500,000 lettuces a year, he says.
Chinese market gardens are terraced on the hillsides, producing temperate-zone crops (strawberries, cabbages, tomatoes, lettuces) that are sold in the large lowland towns.
Recently, vinaigrettes factored into a small plate of caramelized romanesco as well as a salad of red-oak lettuces, and were unnecessary and excessive, respectively.
Some starters are familiar — lettuces, pickled beets, charred octopus — while others are more high-concept: spring-pea-and-garlic-milk soup topped with froth, or shelled snow crab stacked with uni, avocado, and assorted microgreens (occasionally from Brooklyn rooftop farms).
A dressed egg with parsley and frizzled leeks got a nice savory swerve from anchovy, and fresh green and purple chicories, which looked like individually tie-dyed craft lettuces, were sweet and tender, with a light vinegary dressing that was offset by nutty shavings of Chevrotin cheese.
"It's all fed on apples and pears and lettuces".
Even if that is the literal, awkward truth of the new season, I'd rather a document that, when you sit down and unfold your napkin, tells more of the hopeful, exciting truth — asparagus, peas, lettuces, and strawberries — so, when I go, I go fresh top to bottom, from zero.
In the market, I bought lettuces as frilled, scalloped, unfurled, and rainbow-hued as rococo chapels — Batavia, Tarantelle, Reine des Glaces — and the sun touched each sweet leaf till it trembled and spoke in tongues.
"Frenzy," with its piles of peaches and lettuces, its constant drinking, is a masterpiece devoted to appetite in all its varieties — but it is most seriously devoted to the perversion of sexual happiness in murder and to the absence of sexual happiness in "normal" life.
Skip the gem lettuces, a sort of deconstructed salad; for fourteen dollars, there aren't enough white anchovies.
But, when I try that, I end up with tired and fresh going at the same time — cellared yams and new field lettuces on the same menu.
