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What FoodAnthro is Reading Now . . .
. Sunday, 17 November 2024, 18:14 (06:14 PM) CST, day 322 of 2024 .
 
BBC Food
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Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.
"Palermo,Sicily
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A Fistful of Rice.
A Fistfull of Rice
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Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
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Lettuce

In the News
 Lactuca sativa

Lactuca sativa
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Lettuce
NOUN:   : any of a genus (Lactuca) of composite plants; especially : a common garden vegetable (L. sativa) whose succulent leaves are used especially in salads
ETYMOLOGY:   Middle English letuse, from Anglo-French letuse, probably from plural of letue lettuce plant, from Latin lactuca, from lact-, lac milk; from its milky juice — more at galaxy
    First Known Use: 14th century
     
Merriam-Webster Dictionary© 2011 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

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Lettuce

Category: Leaf vegetables

In the news . . .

 
  • Lawrence, Felicity. Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health. London: Penguin Books, 2008.

  • Lawrence, Felicity. Not on the Label: What Really Goes into The Food on Your Plate, Revised Edition. London: Penguin Books, 2013.

  • Visser, Margaret. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal. NY: Grove, 2010 [1986].

Lettuce
Iceberg lettuce field in Northern Santa Barbara County

Iceberg lettuce field in Northern Santa Barbara County
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiosperms
Class: Eudicots
  Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Lactuca
Species: L. sativa
Binomial name
Lactuca sativa
L.
 

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