lettuce

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Chicken salad, tuna salad, pasta salad, potato salad — any of the vaguely retro, mayo-bound “salads” that aren’t really about lettuce at all — benefit from pickle juice.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

If you’re getting tomatoes and lettuce for your burgers, expect them to cost around 20% more than they did last year — and make a plan for how you can use any leftovers.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Farms in California’s Imperial Valley depend entirely on the river to grow crops including hay, broccoli and lettuce.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

They banked almost 500,000 seeds from 19 species, including relatives of lettuce, parsnip, strawberry, radish, quinoa, blackberry, alfalfa and several species used as fodder crops for livestock.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien