The question has come up a few times (since I can’t shuddup about my favorite lettuce ). It’s a fairly common lettuce in many European countries, e.g. Germany, Netherlands, France, Belgium, UK, etc., but it seems really hard to come by for many HOs stateside.
Our local Wegmans carried it for at least a couple of years when they first opened, but that was almost two decades ago.
I don’t know if this dearth is limited to the Northeast —maybe the midwest is eating all of it, or the West Coast peeps are hogging it, but… can anyone shed a light on this puzzling mystery?
Ah, so the West Coast is hogging it, as I suspected.
Lucky you.
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(John Hartley - a culinary patriot eating & cooking in Northwest England)
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I bet you somewhere “supply & demand” will feature. If it’s not available in your area, your major retailers won’t have seen sufficient demand to bother stocking it.
One of my fave salad leaves - and we’re just in season for a salad of that, pea shoots and a little rocket. Simple cider vinegar and rapeseed oil dressing.
I did not even see seeds this year when preparing to plant our cut and come again square foot patches. And none at the usual suspects here in Baltimore. I will mail-order seeds for next year if I have to.
I’ve looked at fancy-shmancy DiBruno’s when in Philly, but no dice. I’ve also not seen it at the Italian market.
I’m surprised it’s abundant on the west coast, as it used to be more of a winter lettuce (tho I see it everywhere in the summer here, so clearly farming methods have changed/improved).
Not Bay Area per se, but the Whole Foods in Roseville and Sebastopol had them (about 3 weeks ago during Memorial Day weekend) and the Safeway in South Lake Tahoe.
Lamb’s lettuce, corn salad, cornsalad, maché, field salad, nut lettuce…it’s got a LOT of names. I swear I’ve seen it near me in New England, but I probably just walked past it not knowing about it.
Field Salad seems the most familiar to me. Now I’ll be on the hunt for it.
). It’s a fairly common lettuce in many European countries, e.g. Germany, Netherlands, France, Belgium, UK, etc., but it seems really hard to come by for many HOs stateside.
