Apartment Therapy Tagged: lettuce

Why This Is Our Favorite Lettuce

What is it? Bibb, Boston, Butter... It goes by many names. And it's slightly more expensive than your average romaine. But we have good reasons for why we love it, so read on... ...

Read This: Why You Should Eat More Iceberg Lettuce
Saveur Issue 120

Among all the food magazines on the newsstands, Saveur continues to be one of our very favorites. More than any other magazine it seems to capture the ways that food touches on every part of cultural ...

What is Your Most Dreaded Cooking Task?

I'll go first. I hate washing lettuce (I use this method, but drying it is always a pain) and mincing ginger. I love ginger wholeheartedly, so that one I simply muddle through. But I definitely eat fe...

Simple Tip: How to Wash Lettuce

You may think you don't need to be told how to wash lettuce, and you may be right. But we've heard more than one chef recommend this way—with a big bowl and some hand towels—and we've got our own ...

Farmers' Market Report: Lettuce for Your Garden
New York

The New York City farmers' markets are still peeking out from under the blanket of winter. Ramps have arrived, but there's not much else in the way of exciting produce. There are, however, plenty of f...

Help! Ways to Use Lettuce Besides Salads and Sandwiches?

We wanted to bring you a Top 5 for this post, but we weren't having a lot of success finding inventive recipes for using lettuce amidst the typical ones for salads and sandwiches. So we thought we'd ...

Garden Spotlight: An Array of Seeds

We showed you our tiny seedlings this morning, but now we want to back up for a moment and show you the seeds we planted. We were fascinated by the range of sizes and shapes in the seeds we planted......

Recipe: Frisée Salad with Red Currants

Frisée means curly in French, and its tightly wound bitter leaves are crunchy, springy, and delicately bitter. They're also a delicious winter salad base with an unusual winter fruit......