There were also "the Italian dandelion pickers, women who scoured New York's vacant lots for wild salad greens," as well as urban goose farmers who raised poultry in basements and hallways.
I spend my last hours at Wild Fal gathering edible leaves, and as I nibble away at my wild salad from my newly crafted bowl, I can't help but contemplate the simple fulfilment that creating with nature can achieve: a reminder that some things really can't be connected to digitally.
Click here to order a copy from Guardian Bookshop for £11.99 The herbs mentioned should be considered as among the many possibilities – any wild salad greens may be used and other herbs, depending on personal taste; strongly flavoured herbs such as rosemary, common thyme, sage, savory, etc, should be avoided or used with discretion.
The creators of the stage version of "Millie" aren't really trying to summon or satirize the wild and crazy salad days of Prohibition, though they have included a speak-easy sequence.
WHAT WE LIKE Edamame, Nantucket bay scallop salad, warm wild mushroom salad, short ribs, rock shrimp tempura, other tempuras, sushi, red snapper, salmon, lamb chops, surf and turf of Kobe beef and lobster tail, all desserts.
Appetizers include seafood crepe with a tomato coulis; French string beans and wild mushroom salad; a salad of endive and French chicory with walnuts; and home-cured smoked salmon with a chives sauce.
Would you like to begin with a wild mushroom salad, a shellfish salad or a regular green salad?
My two favorite entrees were lightened by salad accompaniments: juicy grilled rib-eye atop a wild arugula salad, all crowned with paper-thin slices of Parmesan and drizzles of balsamic reduction, and a lightly grilled whole branzino (filleted tableside) under an arugula and cherry tomato salad.
It has leaves that are peppery-hot and makes an excellent ingredient in any wild spring salad.
Offerings change daily, but I sampled ciccioli, a fluffy, fat-laced pork pâté; small nuggets of parmigiano; a peppery wild arugula salad; and bowls of olives.
